Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity - Paperback

by Ulrich Beck (Author), Mark Ritter (Translator), Scott Lash (Introduction by)

Underpinning this examination of Western societies 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.