Ulrich Beck, Globalization and the Rise of the Risk.
Ulrich Beck is the contemporary theorist of modernity. He is a German sociologist who has written extensively about risk and globalization. He argues that the risk which is inherent in modern society would contribute towards the formation of a global risk society. In a modern society, there is technological change.Ulrich Beck's Risk Society -Globality the idea of limits and boundaries is already fictitious -Ecological hazards, are uncontrollable and know no borders. Environmental damages were caused not by nature, but by mankind through science and technology: the use of these advances, instead of saving humanity, are working to extinguish.The article argues that Beck's work is constrained by several sociological weaknesses: namely, a dependence upon objectivistic and instrumental models of the social construction of risk and uncertainty in social relations, and a failure to adequately define the relations between institutional dynamism on the one hand and self-referentiality and critical reflection on the other.
Ulrich Beck has emerged as one of the leading thinkers of the age. His principal claim to fame is as author of the widely acclaimed 'Risk Society', first published in 1986. Since this time, Beck's work has had a profound effect on the trajectory of social theory, leading to him being hailed as a zietgeist sociologist.Beck is a prolific writer who particularly addresses the most pressing societal topics of his time in an accessible way. He has written a series of well-known books, including the previously mentioned The Risk Society (1992) and Reflexive Modernization (1994, with.
Wealth tends to accumulate at the top of society, while risks accumulate at the bottom (the two are closely related). These risks are, in Beck’s words, “systematic and often cause irreversible harm.” Risks are unevenly distributed. There are both losers and winners, and the winners are mainly big business.
