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Ulrich Beck

1944–2015

Ulrich Beck (1944–2015) was a highly influential German sociologist and public intellectual, best known for developing the theory of the risk society. His work critically examined the unintended consequences of modernization and the societal shifts brought about by technological advancement and globalization.

Sociology

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986)
The Brave New World of Work (1988)
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Public and Private in World Risk Society (with Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash, 1994)
World Risk Society (1999)
Individualization: Institutionalized Individualization and Its Social and Political Consequences (2002)
The Cosmopolitan Vision (2006)
German Europe (2012)
The American-German Year of the Future: A Transatlantic Dialogue (editor, 2015)

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