Description
Product ID: | 9780803983465 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
Title: | Risk Society |
Subtitle: | Towards a New Modernity |
Authors: | Author: Ulrich Beck |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Anthropology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict. This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the ''risk society''. The changing nature of society''s relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict. |
Imprint Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1992-07-30 |