The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761964681 ISBN 13: 9780761964681

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

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 arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.

About this title

About the Author:

My primary expertise is in the area of social and socio-environmental time. I have developed this perspective over the last three decades during which I have worked the time dimension into the following areas of conceptual and empirical social science research: culture, education, environment, environmental economics, food, globalisation, gender, health, international relations, management, media, risk, technological innovation, transport and work.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761964681
• ISBN 13: 9780761964681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Adam Barbara, Beck Ulrich, Van Loon Joost