Ulrich Beck : an introduction to the theory of second modernity and the risk society / by Sørensen, Mads Peter

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction and a short biography -- Risk society : the return of uncertainty -- The theory of second modernity : Ulrich Beck's diagnosis of contemporary modernity -- Individualization : doomed to live a life of one's own -- Globalization and cosmopolitanism : living in an interconnected world -- Sociology, science, and politics in second modernity -- The third industrial revolution: the end of full employment society -- Critique of Ulrich Beck's sociology -- Bibliography of Ulrich Beck.…”

Ulrich Beck : a critical introduction to the risk society / by Mythen, Gabe

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Ulrich Beck : risikosamfundet og det andet moderne / by Sørensen, Mads P.

Table of Contents: “…Globalisering og kosmopolitisme. Ulrich Becks aktuelle tænkning; Hvad er globalisering?…”
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The metamorphosis of the world / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015

Distant love / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-, Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-

German Europe / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Risk society : towards a new modernity / by Beck, Ulrich

Individualization : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015

Table of Contents: “…-- The Ambivalent Social Structure -- Poverty and Wealth in a 'Self-Driven Culture' -- From 'Living for Others' to 'A Life of One's Own' -- Individualization and Women -- On the Way to the Post-Familial Family -- From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities -- Division of Labour, Self-Imaging and Life Projects -- New Conflicts in the Family -- Declining Birthrates and the Wish to Have Children -- Apparatuses Do Not Care for People -- Health and Responsibility in the Age of Genetic Technology -- Death of One's Own, Life of One's Own -- Hopes from Transience -- Freedom's Children -- Freedom's Fathers -- Zombie Categories -- Interview with Ulrich Beck.…”
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Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Rooted cosmopolitanism : emerging from a rivalry of distinctions / Ulrich Beck -- Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and globalization / George Ritzer and Todd Stillman -- Culture, modernity and immediacy / John Tomlinson -- Hyperpower exceptionalism : globalization the American way / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Debating Americanization : the case of France / Richard Kuisel -- Consumption, modernity and Japanese cultural identity : the limits of Americanization? …”
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The normal chaos of love / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory /

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The risk society revisited : social theory and governance / by Rosa, Eugene A., Renn, Ortwin, McCright, Aaron M.

Table of Contents: “…Reflexive modernization theory and risk : the work of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens --…”

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Futures of modernity : challenges for cosmopolitical thought and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Twelve theses on Ulrich Beck: a God of one's own. Religion's capacity for peace and potential for violence / Hans-Georg Soeffner.…”

Democratic theorists in conversation : turns in contemporary thought / by Gagnon, Jean-Paul Romeo, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…-- The impossibility of 'knowing' democracy, with John Dunn -- The changing history of democracy, with Albert Weale -- Democracy before and after the state, with Francis Fukuyama -- The cultural turn in new democratic theory, with Ramin Jahanbegloo -- Questions about the new democratic theory, with David Held -- The reflexive modernization of democracy, with Ulrich Beck -- Twists of democratic governance, with John Dryzek -- Certain turns of modernity in democratic theory, with Pierre Rosanvallon -- Enlivening the democratic imagination, with John Keane -- Nonhuman democratic practice: democracy among the bees, with Thomas Seeley -- Global Leviathan rising, with Noam Chomsky -- Conclusion: Shapes of the frontier.…”

The globalization of strangeness / by Rumford, Chris, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Introduction: when neighbours become strangers -- The unchanging stranger : a critical survey of the literature -- Ulrich Beck : a perspectival account of strangeness -- The global context : rethinking strangers and neighbours -- The "cricketing stranger" : the London bombings and the "homegrown terrorist" -- The cosmopolitan stranger : a thesis -- Representing the stranger : film and television -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.…”

The future of social theory / by Gane, Nicholas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking social theory -- Zygmunt Bauman: liquid sociality -- Judith Butler: reanimating the social -- Bruno Latour: the social as association -- Scott Lash: information is alive -- John Urry: complex mobilities -- Saskia Sassen: space and power -- Ulrich Beck: the cosmopolitan turn -- Nikolas Rose: governing the social -- Françoise Vergès: postcolonial challenges.…”
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Cultural theory and cultural change /

Table of Contents: “…Survival as a social construct / Zygmunt Bauman -- Thinking about limits / Pierre Bourdieu -- The uses and abuses of French discourse theories for feminist politics / Nancy Fraser -- On the sociology of intellectual stagnation / Randall Collins -- From industrial society to risk society / Ulrich Beck -- Beyond social movements / Alain Touraine -- Disaggregating the idea of capitalism / Dennis H. …”

Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / by Loon, Joost van

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: technological culture and risk; Theoretical framework; Cultivating risks: paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck; Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: notes on Actor Network Theory; Assemblages and deviations: biophilosophical reflections on risk; A theoretical framework: risk as the critical limit of technological culture; The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; Cultivating waste: excessive risks in an economy of opportunities; Emergent pathogen virulence: understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture.…”
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Sense of place and sense of planet : the environmental imagination of the global / by Heise, Ursula K.