Ulrich Beck
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German sociologist & scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization". He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. He was a professor at the University of Munich and also held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.
Ulrich Beck's Published Works
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Published Works
- Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1994) (8583)
- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (1994) (3245)
- Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences (2001) (2472)
- World Risk Society (1999) (1644)
- The Normal Chaos of Love (1995) (1452)
- WORLD AT RISK (2008) (1247)
- What Is Globalization (2000) (1113)
- The Cosmopolitan Vision (2006) (933)
- Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk (1995) (814)
- The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology of the second age of modernity* (2000) (812)
- The Brave New World of Work (2000) (809)
- The reinvention of politics : rethinking modernity in the global social order (1999) (775)
- The Theory of Reflexive Modernization (2003) (724)
- The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies (2002) (681)
- Living in the world risk society (2006) (678)
- From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment (1992) (570)
- The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory (2000) (544)
- The Terrorist Threat (2002) (540)
- Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences : a research agenda (2006) (533)
- Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda. (2010) (432)
- The politics of risk society (1998) (416)
- World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? (1996) (402)
- The reinvention of politics (1996) (399)
- Beyond class and nation: reframing social inequalities in a globalizing world. (2007) (359)
- Varieties of second modernity: the cosmopolitan turn in social and political theory and research. (2010) (354)
- Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity? (2010) (349)
- Risk Society Revisited: eory, Politics and Research Programmes (2006) (329)
- Ecological Enlightenment: Essays on the Politics of the Risk Society (1995) (306)
- Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy (2005) (289)
- Second modernity as a research agenda: theoretical and empirical explorations in the 'meta-change' of modern society. (2005) (287)
- Democracy Without Enemies (1998) (268)
- Towards a New Economic Order: Postfordism, Ecology and Democracy (1994) (264)
- Cosmopolitical Realism: On the Distinction between Cosmopolitanism in Philosophy and the Social Sciences (2004) (261)
- Risk Society and the Provident State (1998) (261)
- The Cosmopolitan Condition (2007) (217)
- Emancipatory catastrophism: What does it mean to climate change and risk society? (2015) (187)
- Conversations with Ulrich Beck (2004) (183)
- Cosmopolitanized Nations: Re-imagining Collectivity in World Risk Society (2013) (176)
- Toward a New Critical Theory with a Cosmopolitan Intent (2003) (174)
- Global Generations and the Trap of Methodological Nationalism For a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Youth and Generation (2008) (164)
- Critical Theory of World Risk Society: A Cosmopolitan Vision (2009) (156)
- The metamorphosis of the world (2016) (124)
- Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power (1997) (123)
- Cosmopolitanism as Imagined Communities of Global Risk (2011) (120)
- The Antropological Schock:: Chernobyl and The Contours of the Risk Society (1987) (99)
- Cosmopolitanism Europe's Way Out of Crisis (2007) (96)
- Interview with Ulrich Beck (2001) (94)
- Remapping social inequalities in an age of climate change: for a cosmopolitan renewal of sociology (2010) (90)
- Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk:conceptual and empirical suggestions for a new research agenda (2013) (90)
- Transnational Professionals and their Cosmopolitan Universes (2006) (88)
- The Truth of Others: A Cosmopolitan Approach (2004) (82)
- The Silence of Words: On Terror and War (2003) (78)
- Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization (2004) (77)
- Why 'class' is too soft a category to capture the explosiveness of social inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. (2013) (77)
- Democratization of the Family (1997) (77)
- How not to become a museum piece. (2005) (71)
- Reframing Power in the Globalized World (2008) (68)
- Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences (2006) (64)
- Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions (2004) (63)
- World Risk Society and Manufactured Uncertainties (2009) (63)
- Risk, class, crisis, hazards and cosmopolitan solidarity/risk community - conceptual and methodological clarifications (2013) (62)
- Distant Love: Personal Life in the Global Age (2013) (57)
- Families in a Runaway World (2007) (55)
- Reflexive Governance: Politics in the Global Risk Society (2006) (52)
- The Silence of Words and Political Dynamics in the World Risk Society (2002) (52)
- Redefining the Sociological Project: The Cosmopolitan Challenge (2012) (52)
- A literature on cosmopolitanism: an overview. (2006) (52)
- Losing the Traditional: Individualization and ‘Precarious Freedoms’ (2009) (47)
- War Is Peace: On Post-National War (2005) (46)
- Varieties of Second Modernity and the Cosmopolitan Vision (2016) (44)
- The Debate on the “Individualization Theory” in Today’s Sociology in Germany (1994) (40)
- Global Risk Politics (1997) (36)
- Organizations in World Risk Society (2007) (35)
- The Cosmopolitan State: Redefining Power in the Global Age (2006) (35)
- Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Perspective (2017) (34)
- On The Way To The Industrial Risk-Society? Outline Of An Argument (1989) (32)
- Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: a Research Agenda (2013) (32)
- The merger of discrete event simulation with activity based costing for cost estimation in manufacturing environments (2000) (31)
- Multiculturalism or Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Describe and Understand the Diversity of the World? (2011) (29)
- Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions (2007) (28)
- Socio-economic data for global environmental change research (2015) (27)
- How Modern is Modern Society? (1992) (23)
- How Neighbors Become Jews: the Political Construction of the Stranger In an Age of Reflexive Modernity (1996) (23)
- Subpolitics (1997) (23)
- We Do Not Live in an Age of Cosmopolitanism but in an Age of Cosmopolitization: The ‘Global Other’ is in Our Midst (2011) (23)
- Passage to Hope: Marriage, Migration, and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Turn in Family Research (2010) (22)
- The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World (2016) (21)
- Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the Twenty‐First Century (2008) (21)
- Risk Society's 'Cosmopolitan Moment' (2008) (20)
- Germany's Energy Transition: A Collective Project for the Future (2011) (20)
- Cosmopolitan Sociology: Outline of a Paradigm Shift (2011) (20)
- How Climate Change Might Save the World (2014) (19)
- Ulrich Beck : pioneer in cosmopolitan sociology and risk society (2014) (19)
- Self-limitation of modernity? The theory of reflexive taboos (2011) (18)
- Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil (2012) (18)
- Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda. 2006. (2010) (18)
- On the Way toward an Industrial Society of Risk (1990) (17)
- Understanding the Real Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision (2009) (17)
- Global Risk Society (2012) (16)
- Reinventing Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision (2007) (15)
- Modem Society as a Risk Society (1992) (15)
- We do not Live in an Age of Cosmopolitanism but in an Age of Cosmopolitisation: The ‘Global Other’ is in Our Midst (2011) (14)
- 16. Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individualized Class Society? (1987) (14)
- Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective (2012) (13)
- Climate Change and Globalisation are Reinforcing Global Inequalities: High Time for a New Social Democratic Era (2008) (12)
- Europe from a cosmopolitan perspective (2006) (11)
- Incalculable Futures: World Risk Society and Its Social and Political Implications (2014) (11)
- "Until the Last Ton of Fossil Fuel Has Burnt to Ashes": Climate Change, Global Inequalities and the Dilemma of Green Politics (2011) (11)
- Cosmopolitanization of Memory : The Politics of Forgiveness and Restitution 1 (2016) (11)
- Risk, Society, and Social Theory@@@Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.@@@Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory. (1993) (11)
- Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents (2011) (10)
- Neither Order nor Peace: A Response to Bruno Latour (2005) (10)
- Cosmopolitanization Without Cosmopolitans: On the Distinction Between Normative and Empirical-Analytical Cosmopolitanism in Philosophy and the Social Sciences (2008) (10)
- Cosmopolitanism (2007) (9)
- The European Crisis in the Context of Cosmopolitization (2013) (9)
- The Global Chaos of Love: Towards a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families (2014) (8)
- "Living in and Coping with World Risk Society: The Cosmopolitan Turn " (2012) (8)
- Global generations in world risk society (2008) (7)
- The social morals of an individual life (1997) (7)
- Democratización de la familia (1999) (7)
- RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND MODERNITY (2015) (7)
- New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences (2015) (7)
- Individualization is Eroding Traditions Worldwide: A Comparison Between Europe and China (2014) (7)
- Methodological Cosmopolitanism – In the Laboratory of Climate Change (2013) (7)
- for Selection (2016) (7)
- Clash of Risk Cultures or Critique of American Universalism (2011) (6)
- Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitanization (2012) (4)
- Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: “Germany has created an accidental empire” (2013) (4)
- 2. World Risk Society and the Changing Foundations of Transnational Politics (2005) (4)
- The Cosmopolitan Perspective (2020) (4)
- Democratization of Democracy—Third Way Policy Needs to Redefine Work (2000) (3)
- Continuing the public sociologies debate - replies to Michael Burawoy (2005) (3)
- The Two Faces of Religion (2014) (3)
- Author’s reply (2015) (2)
- How Climate Change Might Save the World: Metamorphosis (2014) (2)
- Ulrich Beck’s Scientific Leadership Profile (2014) (1)
- Theses for an Extensive Reform of Education (2004) (1)
- Global Inequality and Human Rights (2012) (1)
- The Global Chaos of Love (2014) (1)
- The Reflexive Modernization of Democracy (2014) (1)
- REDISCOVERING EUROPE – A COSMOPOLITAN VISION (2008) (1)
- Methodological Nationalism – Methodological Cosmopolitism: A Paradigm Shift in Social Sciences (2014) (1)
- Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: “All kinds of positive developments can result from climate change” (2014) (1)
- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order@@@Critique of Modernity (1996) (1)
- Conclusion: Towards a European Spring? (2015) (1)
- THEORIES OF AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES: (2016) (1)
- The Beginning of Fear : a review of (2019) (0)
- Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Confucian Cosmopolitanism: A Comparison (2014) (0)
- The Brave New World of Work, Ulrich Beck, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000 (first published in German 1999), paper, v+202 pp (2001) (0)
- Cosmopolitan cosmopolitanism and low-carbon China as political education In memoriam (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- Cooperate or bust (2020) (0)
- Redefining Power in the Age of Globalization: Eight Theses (2003) (0)
- Plotting Marriage and Love in Elechi Amadi ’ s The Concubine : Extended Realism in the African Novel (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2011) (0)
- Escalating side effects (2021) (0)
- Cosmopolitan Europe Cosmopolitan Europe (2014) (0)
- Volume Information (1995) (0)
- Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individualized Class Society? (2021) (0)
- Conclusion and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures (2020) (0)
- Laudatio a Pierre Bourdieu (2002) (0)
- NEITHER ORDER NOR PEACE (2017) (0)
- Speaking Truth to Bureaucratic Power : Three National Responses to Cholera (2004) (0)
- The Thrills of Misery (2004) (0)
- Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: “Digital freedom risk is one of the most important risks we face in modern society” (2014) (0)
- Notes About Contributors (1971) (0)
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (2011) (0)
- Social exclusion, the poor and the world of work: New times, old times (2000) (0)
- Conversations with (2014) (0)
- The precaution controversy: an analysis through the lens of Ulrich Beck and Michel Foucault (2017) (0)
- 81. Methodological Cosmopolitanism (2016) (0)
- Risk society1 (2020) (0)
- COSMOPOLITAN STATE (2020) (0)
- Chapter 1 - Counter-power in the global age: Strategies of civil society movements: Chapter taken from Power and Transnational Activism ISBN: 978–0–203–83665–1 (2012) (0)
- Special Session Ulrich Beck (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Europe in German : review of “A német Európa” by Ulrich Beck’s (2015) (0)
- WORLD AT RISK: THE NEW TASK OF CRITICAL THEORY*1 (2008) (0)
- Errata to: Ulrich Beck (2014) (0)
- "World at Risk", Ulrich Beck, 2008 : [recenzja] / Hieronim Kubiak. (2011) (0)
- Hiphop: a chance for the school! (2000) (0)
- We Are Not Living in an Era of Cosmopolitanism but an Era of Cosmopolitization (2014) (0)
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