TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck,Ulrich
AU  - Ritter,Mark
TI  - Risk society: towards a new modernity 
T2  - Theory, culture & society
SN  - 9780803983465 (pbk.) :
AV  - HM866 .B3913 1992
U1  - 306 BEC 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Los Angeles, [Calif.], London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social change
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Risk
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Technology
KW  - Progress
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Industries
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social theory
KW  - thema
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Anthropology
N1  - Originally published as 'Risikogeselschaft: Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne' by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1986; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I.Living on the volcano of civilization: the contours of the risk society -- 1.On the logic of wealth distribution and risk distributio n-- 2.The politics of knowledge in the risk society -- Part II.The individualization of social inequality: life forms and the demise of tradition -- 3.Beyond status and class? -- 4.'I am I': gendered space and conflict inside and outside the family -- 5.Individualization, institutionalization and standardization: life situations and biographical patterns - 6.Destandardization of labor -- Part III.Reflexive modernization: on the generalization of science and politics -- 7.Science beyond truth and enlightenmen? -- 8.Opening up the political
ER  -