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This is an 8 page paper describing Ulrich Beck’s notion of “risk society”. German sociologist Ulrich Beck and professor of sociology at the University of Munich is perhaps the best known for his various works on “risk society”. Fundamentally, Beck argues that today’s post-modern society is that of “Risikgesellschaft” or “risk society” which primarily means that “society’s members are confronted with socially-created risks which endanger the survival of the species” (Bancroft and Rogers, 2003). This “new modernity” in society has led to a great deal of individualization in which individuals make more decisions within their own lives as traditional aspects of guidance and norms no longer apply. In addition, the risks and hazards of today have led to a “reflexive modernization” in which the “compulsive dynamic of advanced” modernization propels individuals into “self-confrontation” with the consequences of the nature of the risks and hazards which cannot be controlled.
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society". Fundamentally, Beck argues that todays post-modern society is that of "Risikgesellschaft" or "risk society" which primarily means that "societys members are confronted with socially-created risks which endanger the survival
of the species" (Bancroft and Rogers, 2003). This "new modernity" in society has led to a great deal of individualization in which individuals make more decisions within their own lives
as traditional aspects of guidance and norms no longer apply. In addition, the risks and hazards of today have led to a "reflexive modernization" in which the "compulsive dynamic of
advanced" modernization propels individuals into "self-confrontation" with the consequences of the nature of the risks and hazards which cannot be controlled. Risk society
differs a great deal from the traditional class society in that the leading social institutions in todays society in the areas of economics (such as private property and industrialization), law
(in private and administrative institutions) and within politics are more so ones of "organized irresponsibility whereby risk producers are protected at the expense of risk victims". These leading institutions are
not only responsible for producing these risks to society but also engaged in "making the resulting risks socially non-existent" (Bancroft and Rogers, 2003; Beck, 1986, 1992). In addition, the upper
classes in the past which may have been protected from certain risks, no longer have that protection in terms of possible global hazards. Beck writes that "risk may be defined
as a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself" and "in contrast to all earlier epochs (including industrial society), the risk society is
characterized essentially by a lack: the impossibility of an external attribution of hazards. In other words, risks depend on decisions, they are industrially produced and in this sense politically reflexive"
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