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According to the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, a risk society is "a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk", [3] whilst the German sociologist Ulrich Beck defines it as "a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself".
With Gerald A. Heuer, Leopold-Wildburger is the coauthor of the books Balanced Silverman Games on General Discrete Sets (1991) [4] and Silverman’s Game: A Special Class of Two-Person Zero-Sum Games (1995), [5] concerning Silverman's game.
Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. [citation needed] His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization".
A variety of scholars have presented survey data in support of Cultural Theory. The first of these was Karl Dake, a graduate student of Wildavsky, who correlated perceptions of various societal risks—environmental disaster, external aggression, internal disorder, market breakdown—with subjects’ scores on attitudinal scales that he believed reflected the “cultural worldviews ...
Her philosophical work focused on risk taking, which she argued was essential, saying that "absolute security - like 'zero risk' - is a fantasy" [4] and that "[R]eal danger must be faced in order to survive". [6] Her book Éloge du risque or Praise of Risk was published in 2011. [4]
Scotchmer served on various committees of the National Research Council and was a member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy. The Department of Justice used her as a consultant on antitrust. [1] [2] [3] She was a fellow of the Econometrics Society.
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Jonathan Simon is the son of sociologist William Simon. [1] As a young boy growing up in Chicago, Simon was impacted by the politics of the 1960s, including anti-war protests and the assassination of Fred Hampton. [2]