Ulrich Beck

Theorising World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism

Klaus Rasborg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 228 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-89203-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire body of work is divided into four interrelated phases, which are successively presented and discussed, namely: the original theory of risk society (from 1986 onwards); the theory of the world risk society (from 1996 onwards); the theory of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanization (from 1996 onwards); and the theory of 'metamorphosis', 'emancipatory catastrophism and 'global imagined risk communities' (2013-16). The book thus demonstrates how Beck's concept of the (world) risk society has given us a new language or a special lens that enables us to better understand contemporary society's complexity and its myriad of human-made uncertainties in terms of climate change, terrorist threats, global pandemics, economic crises, and migration crises.

Klaus Rasborg is Associate Professor of Social Dynamics and Change at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His key research interests include classical and modern sociology, social differentiation, inequality, individualization, reflexive modernity, world risk society and cosmopolitanism.

1. Introduction.- 2. What is risk?.- 3. The idea of the risk society.- 4. Individualization - beyond class and social communities?.- Chapter 5. Reflexive modernity .- 6. The transformation of family, wage labour and politics in the (world) risk society.- 7. The world risk society as a cosmopolitan society?.- 8. The (world) risk society in a critical perspective.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	XI, 228 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	cosmopolitanization • Individualism • Multiculturalism • Reflexive modernity • Sociology of risk
ISBN-10	3-030-89203-4 / 3030892034
ISBN-13	978-3-030-89203-6 / 9783030892036
Zustand	Neuware