Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803983465)

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.

Author: Ulrich Beck
ISBN-10: 0803983468
ISBN-13: 9780803983465
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 09/03/1992
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d