World risk society / Ulrich Beck.

By:

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Malden, Mass : Polity Press, 1999.Description: vii, 184 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0745622216 (pbk.) ; 0745622208

DDC classification:

302.12 21

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto -- 2. World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties -- 3. From Industrial Society to Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment -- 4. Risk Society and the Welfare State -- 5. Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power -- 6. Knowledge or Unawareness? Two Perspectives on 'Reflexive Modernization' -- 7. Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes.

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