Lecture 6 Political and social approaches to risk: Beck's Risk society
{"Image DocumentName": "Lecture 6 Political and social approaches to risk: Beck\u2019s Risk society", "Image ImageDescription": "Beck\u2019s Risk Society is not a society in which we live more dangerously, but a society where the issue of industrial and technological risks have become firmly established in the political field. In Industrial Society, the central political issue was the distribution of goods and services, the distribution of wealth. In Beck\u2019s Risk Society, it is the existence of risks and their distribution that dominate the society. Before the Risk Society institutions dominated the social order. In Reflexive Modernity (which corresponds to the Risk Society), individuals themselves become the motor of social change. Agent primacy signified: self as agent reflects on itself, structural reflexivity (agent reflects on social structures, rules and resources., networks of flexibility, communication/ technologies the new structure, knowledge based, client-centred-coproduction. In the risk society, collective identities, once crystallized around the nation, progress or class affiliation are now dislocated and renegotiated around communities of danger . It is the breaking between past social order, in which the traditional institutions assured the social contract, and the reflexive social order, in which the dominant elements are risk and uncertainty about the future.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}