Ulrich Beck Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Beck, Ulrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 18
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Economic Systems.; Sociological Theory.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.

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...

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.