Risk Society
出版时间
1992-09-03
ISBN
9780803983465
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the `risk society′. The changing nature of society′s relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.
用户评论
对这个译本，我有很多意见。
总算把又一本必读读完了。全书三个章节，reflexive modernity里的科学、政治、科学与政治的关系。Beck并不只是以为批判，而是给出了他认为的解决之道，即differential politics（而不是弊端已现的福利制度的深化）。可惜这过去的几十年，我们并没有走上sub-politics直接深刻改变社会的道路，而是进入了risk society 2.0版本，一种幻灭后的版本，post-truth。而Beck对后来的种种社会潮流是如何诠释的？期待着读完Individualization再去和闫宇翔老师的中国应用作对比啦。
discussions of family-work conflict (Chapter 4) and individualization of life course (Chapter 5) are quite illuminating. Recommended.
media and modernity
全书两个主要观点（概念）risk society和reflexive modernity，前一个比较有名，我读的时候也比较可以理解，后一个不懂，现在仍不懂。
the development of scientific rationality and economic pro- gress have produced a range of ecological risks
These risks can no longer be dismissed as the side-effects of industrialism. Instead, they have become central to the definition of society at the start of the twenty-first century
主要读了reflexive modernity的部分 总会想到Deleuze的becoming
学社科必看。光看风险归责在意思表示领域的入侵就可一叶知秋——风险理念已经渗透到了现代社会的方方面面。
在一个对上帝、阶级、国家和进步的信任和信仰已基本消失的年代，共同恐惧已经被证明是人类仅剩的能通过矛盾来制造新联系的资源
最近我频频想起这本书，当初读得死去活来，现在好像突然明白了reflexivity的含义。