Concept
Risk society
Overview
Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk. The term is closely associated with several key writers on modernity, in particular Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. The term was coined in the 1980s and its popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider modernity, and also to its links to popular discourse, in particular the growing environmental concerns during the period.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Related ideas
- Modernization theory
- Government
- Capital (economics)
- Modernity
- Environmentalism
- Wealth
- Knowledge
- Risk
- Anthony Giddens
- Society
- Agency (philosophy)
- Reflexivity (social theory)
- Ulrich Beck
- Reflexive modernization
Place in the tradition
Part of Environmental sociology.