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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".
Ulrich Beck focuses on the dissolution of traditional institutions and the rise of transnational forces, while promoting a new type solidarity in the face of the human made dangers of the risk society, exacerbated by the inherent limits being discovered to all forms of social knowing. [5]
Second modernity is a phrase coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck, and is his word for the period after modernity.. Where modernity broke down agricultural society in favour of industrial society, second modernity transforms industrial society into a new and more reflexive network society or information society.
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".
Ulrich Beck's Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk is published. [65] Walden Bello founded Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, Thailand. [66] Raymond Boudon's Le Juste et le vrai is published. [67] Colin Crouch's Reinventing collective action: from the global to the local is published. [68]
Reflectivism is an umbrella label used in International Relations theory for a range of theoretical approaches which oppose rational-choice accounts of social phenomena and positivism generally.
Cosmopolitan nationalism is a concept used to describe the dual tendency of combining local and global policy orientations in modern education studies.The concept describes the conflicting pressures within national education structures to promote internationalization and a global gaze, while also seeking to remain locally relevant and a primary contributor to national projects of economic ...
Ulrich Beck pointed out how Flecha's analysis of contemporary sociological theory demonstrated rigorous research with facts, linking theory with criticism and empirical research with praxis: [3] combines rigorous research with facts, including the intention for a dialogical utopia.