Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

By U. Beck, M. Ritter. 1992

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Citations in the corpus

• Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment (2017, background): “ginalizedpopulations[33].Whenrisk is constituted as a static phenomenon, it can only suggest what should not be done (i.e. release), and gives little insight into what can be done to improve outcomes [8]. Bythe1980’s,critiquesofthisprediction-orientedapproachstarted to emerge, heralding in the next ”
• Learning through working life: self and individuals’ agentic action (2005, unknown): “Yet, rather than being disruptive and disarming or marginalising, as some accounts predict (e.g. Bauman, 1998; Beck, 1992; Rifkin, 1995), these five individuals have absorbed these changes, which in some instances were also quite instrumental in bolstering their career progression and identity…”
• From dissonance to resonance: cognitive interdependence in quantitative finance (2012, unknown): “
As
Luhmann
and
other
sociologists
of
 risk
 have
 argued,
 risk
 is
 rarely
 eliminated
 in
 modern
 technological
 societies
 (Luhmann,
1993;
Beck,
1992;
Giddens,
1990).

Given
the
limits
of
human
knowledge
 in
a
modern
economy,
new
 technologies
 carry
with
 them
an
 irreducible
degree
of
 uncert”
• The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web (2013, background): “At national government levels, pressures for more agile government structures continue to increase, reflecting the development of ‘risk society’ issues (such as cross-national terrorism, pandemics, energy security and similar issues) to central political prominence [42].”
• Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (2018, unknown): “Here we can draw on the insights of a diverse body of works that have addressed the twin processes of industrialization and modernization (Harvey, 1990; Mokyr, 1990; Giddens, 1991; Beck, 1992; Latour, 1993; Grübler, 2003; Misa et al., 2003; McNeill and McNeill, 2003; Arthur, 2009; Lamba, 2010; McCle”
• Limits of governability: Institutional implications for fisheries and coastal governance (2007, unknown): “[23] Beck U.”
• The Opportunity Trap: Education and Employment in a Global Economy (2003, background): “The opportunity trap has become a defining feature of the risk society (Beck, 1992).”
• Developing a framework for responsible innovation* (2013, background): “Social theorists Beck, 1992; Beck et al., 1994) have argued that reflexivity is a ondition of contemporary modernity. Scientists’ own version f reflexivity often echoes Popper’s (1963) argument that selfeferential critique is an organising principle of science (Lynch, 000).”
• The Road Less Travelled – New Directions in Children's and Young People's Mobility (2009, background): “Ruddick (2003) suggests youth is a key – but often hidden – tool for neo-liberal global capital, exemplified by individualistic, self-reflexive projections of identity (Giddens, 1991; Beck, 1992).”
• Agency Working in Britain: Character, Consequences and Regulation (2005, unknown): “Initially conceived by some as part of a strategic attempt by firms to achieve cost and production flexibility in the face of what were seen as increasingly volatile product markets (Atkinson 1985) later interpretations painted a much bleaker picture, in which agency work was characterised as part o”