Globales Amerika Global America with N. Disugualianza senza confini Gius. Using a study investigating the attitudes toward organic food in the UK as an empirical example, Beck’s theory is put to the test in order to see how it interprets the results. The Risk Society and Beyond. Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim Sociologue et universitaire allemande. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.Wie die kommende Generation Gesellschaftswissenschaften betreiben will individualixacion A.
Soziologie und Praxis Soziale Welt: Ulrich Beck has passed away on 1 January at the age of 70 due to a heart attack. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families indigidualizacion themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. Ulrich Beck y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
This is definitely one of the most difficult to read books I’ve encountered in the past years, due to the way it’s written. As it’s in German (and I’m not sure if this particular version has an English translation) this may be a bridge too far for some anyway, but even for people who are used to reading both German and academic papers this one may be prove challenging. Anyway, it was for me and I considered a few times to just give up, but I decided to persist and at least try to squeeze the main essence from it. This wasn’t easy due to the flowery and circular language that is frequented by words that common mortals will avoid at any cost in every day conversations (or writing, for that matter). It’s probably a typical example of a book written by an academic for other academicsOkay, having given that warning let’s proceed to the contents. The book is a follow-up of his 1986 classic “” and expands on the ideas presented there and an English book from 1999.
It deals with risk on a global level and how is dealt with it, or should be dealt with is. Pretty much of the discussion is fairly philosophical in character and grounded in sociological theories (Beck is a Professor in Sociology, after all) which I’m not all that familiar with, so that may very well be one reason that much of the writing doesn’t appeal all that much to me. If I try to summarize some of the most important points these would include:. The “success” of modern society - and not its failure - has created some major risks (often as unintended side effects).