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Ulrich Beck - Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society (Paperback, 2014)
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Ulrich Beck - Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society (Paperback, 2014)
Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 18
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This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world's leading
sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan
Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been
confirmed by recent disasters - events that have shaken modern
society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which
comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own
successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past
experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test
bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms,
nanotechnology - if any of these experiments went wrong, the
consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible.
Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert
opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by
calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man's fear
of collapse should offer an opportunity for international
cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
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