Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arg
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Every technology produces, provokes, programs a specific accident ... Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, European Commission, United Nations, Cold War, European Parliament, New Modernity, Our Genetic Future, Scott Lash, Suhrkamp Verlag, Alan Scott, Amnesty International, Basil Blackwell, Ecological Politics, European Union, Lindsay Prior, Royal Science, Second World War, Columbia University Press, Hargreaves Heap, Humanities Press, June Weinstock, Misunderstanding Science, Oxford University Press, University of California Press New!
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- Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers by Mary Douglas on 6 pages
- Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Ulrich Beck on 6 pages
- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck on 5 pages
- Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory by Mary Douglas on 4 pages
- Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck on page 206, page 209, and page 196
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- Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence (International Library of Sociology) by Joost Van Loon on 8 pages
- Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence (International Library of Sociology) by Joost Van Loon on 8 pages
- Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean by James Fairhead on 6 pages
- Environmental Risks and the Media by Barbara Adam on 5 pages
- Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society by Gabe Mythen on 4 pages
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