World Risk Society
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780745622200
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Sociology, Social Studies; Environmental Sociology; Social Change; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Sociology - Social Theory; INDUSTRY_ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; RISK_SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS; Science / Environmental Science; TECHNOLOGY_SOCIAL ASPECTS; International Relations - General; Sociology - General; Environmental degradation; Risk; Social aspects; Sociological aspects; Technology
First sentence: All around the world, contemporary society is undergoing radical change that poses a challenge to Enlightenment-based modernity and opens a field where people choose new and unexpected forms of the social and the political.