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15 de jun. de 2020 · This e-special issue of Theory, Culture & Society showcases work published in the journal by and about the late German sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944–2015). Beck became known as a pioneering and inventive thinker, continuously engaged in a quest to capture the essence of the modern age, whilst simultaneously wrestling with the upcoming horizons of the future.
Ulrich Beck estudió Sociología, Filosofía, Psicología y Ciencia Política en Friburgo y Munich. Fue profesor en Münster, en la Universidad de Bamberg y desde 1992 en la Universidad Ludwig-Maximilian de Munich. También impartió docencia en la Universidad de Gales en Cardiff y en la London School of Economics.
Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk.The term is closely associated with several key writers on modernity, in particular Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. [1] The term was coined in the 1980s and its popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider modernity, and also to its links to popular ...
Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society triggered an intellectual earthquake in Germany upon its initial publication. Beck asserted the controversial position that social reality no longer corresponded to sociologists’ terminology, arguing that a quasi-revolutionary shift towards a new variant of modernity had occurred within the seemingly intact institutional shell of industrial modernity.
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) Fue catedrático de Sociología de la Universidad Ludwig Maximilian de Múnich y catedrático de Sociología en la London School of Economics. Es considerado uno de los sociólogos contemporáneos más destacados en el estudio de las consecuencias perniciosas de los procesos de modernización y globalización, incluyendo los problemas medioambientales.
Ulrich Beck föddes i Hinterpommern 1944, som avträddes till i Polen efter andra världskrigets slut 1945. Han flyttade med sin familj till vad som efter andra världskriget blev Västtyskland och växte upp i Hannover. 1966 började han studera, sociologi, psykologi, filosofi och statsvetenskap vid universitetet i München.Han tog doktorsexamen där redan 1972, och blev anställd vid samma ...
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 ...
