Ulrich Beck’s Concept “Risk Society”
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This is an 8 page paper describing Ulrich Beck’s notion of “risk society”. German sociologist Ulrich Beck and professor of sociology at the University of Munich is perhaps the best known for his various works on “risk society”. Fundamentally, Beck argues that today’s post-modern society is that of “Risikgesellschaft” or “risk society” which primarily means that “society’s members are confronted with socially-created risks which endanger the survival of the species” (Bancroft and Rogers, 2003). This “new modernity” in society has led to a great deal of individualization in which individuals make more decisions within their own lives as traditional aspects of guidance and norms no longer apply. In addition, the risks and hazards of today have led to a “reflexive modernization” in which the “compulsive dynamic of advanced” modernization propels individuals into “self-confrontation” with the consequences of the nature of the risks and hazards which cannot be controlled.
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