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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the sociology of risk. The events of 9/11 are used as an example of state influencing risk perception, sociologically. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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society increases, and civilization is exposed to an increased number of internal and external risks (whether real, imagined, or manufactured), those risks exert a sociological impact on a societys culture
(Elliott, 2002). This is most commonly manifested as a preoccupation with risk and uncertainty in cultural norms and values. * Slide Two: * One of the most prominent
theorists in the sociology of risk is Ulrich Beck, who established the concept of a "risk society" (Beck, 1992). While risk has always had some influence upon culture and society
(consider ancient Sparta for a clear example), todays world is such that risk can be culturally communicated and integrated on a scale never before possible, creating entire "risk societies", where
entire cultures are fixated upon risk and preventing those risks from manifesting (Beck, 1992). It is Becks contention, in short, that a cultural emphasis on risk can impact the future
course of a society through causing risk prevention to become a major value within that society. * Slide Three: * The study of the sociology of risk is
particularly important as the world moves into the 21st century. This is because, as some theorists have said, we "live in an era of manufactured uncertainties". What this means is
that institutions of social and cultural power have begun to manufacture cultural uncertainties in order to foster a sense of risk as a means of cultural manipulation (Beck, 2009). As
an example of this, he points to 21st century American, where risks - "ecological, terrorist, military, financial, biomedical and informational" - "have an overwhelming presence" (Beck, 2009). For Beck, this
"anticipation of a multiplicity of manmade futures and its risky consequences affect and transform the perceptions, living conditions, and institutions of modern societies" (Beck, 2009). * Slide Four: *
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