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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ulrich Beck
    sub title: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
  name:
    name part: Beck, Ulrich.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 193 p. 18 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
  table of contents: Mads P. Sørensen and Allan Christiansen Biography: Ulrich Beck -- Bibliography -- Dirk Matten: The Risk Society Thesis in Environmental Politics and Management – A Global Perspective -- Ino Rossi: Reflexive Modernization -- Yishai Blank: The Reality of Cosmopolitanism -- Zygmunt Bauman: Jerusalem vs. Athens Revisited -- Incalculable Futures: World Risk Society and its Social and Political Implications -- Individualization Is Eroding Traditions Worldwide: A Comparison between Europe and China -- Beyond Class and Nation: Reframing Social Inequalities in a Globalizing World -- The Two Faces of Religion.
  note: edited by Ulrich Beck.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Economic Systems
  subject:
    topic: Sociological Theory
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  classification: HM706
  classification: HM821-821.17
  classification: 305
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 18
  identifier: 9783319049908
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04990-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 140322
    record change date: 20151103130706.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-04990-8