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9780803983465

Risk Society Vol. 17 : Towards a New Modernity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803983465

  • ISBN10:

    0803983468

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-03
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(8)
Scott Lash
Brian Wynne
Preface 9(10)
PART I Living on the Volcano of Civilization: the Contours of the Risk Society
On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution
19(32)
The Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society
51(40)
PART II The Individualization of Social Inequality: Life Forms and the Demise of Tradition
Beyond Status and Class?
91(12)
`I am I': Gendered Space and Conflict Inside and Outside the Family
103(24)
Individualization, Institutionalization and Standardization: Life Situations and Biographical Patterns
127(12)
Destandardization of Labor
139(16)
PART III Reflexive Modernization: on the Generalization of Science and Politics
Science beyond Truth and Englightenment?
155(28)
Opening up the Political
183(54)
Bibliography 237(14)
Index 251

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