The Risk Society and Beyond

Critical Issues for Social Theory

• Author(s): Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, Joost Van Loon,
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Pages: 232
• ISBN_10: 076196469X
  ISBN_13: 9780761964698
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Social , Political Science / History & Theory , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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