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August 1, 2006Economy and Society756 citations

Living in the world risk society

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UBUlrich Beck

Key Points

  • The aim is to differentiate between ecological and financial risks and the intentional threats posed by terrorism in today's society.
  • Conceptual analysis of risks within the framework of a risk society.
  • Comparison of ecological and financial dangers with terrorist networks.
  • Exploration of vulnerabilities arising from modern civil societal structures.
  • Identified the need to understand intentional threats as a shift from chance to deliberate exploitation of civil society's vulnerabilities.
  • Established a framework for understanding risks that includes both side effects and direct threats.
  • Outlined how modern society's structures contribute to heightened vulnerability to both ecological and intentional risks.

Abstract

Abstract Abstract In a world risk society, we must distinguish between ecological and financial dangers, which can be conceptualized as side effects, and the threat from terrorist networks as intentional catastrophes; the principle of deliberately exploiting the vulnerability of modern civil society replaces the principle of chance and accident. Keywords: riskcatastrophenot-knowingenlightenment function of world risk society cosmopolitan real politik

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Ulrich Beck (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12df2a8f1bac20a09e730ahttps://doi.org/10.1080/03085140600844902
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