This work offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the globalization debate. The author aims to clarify the ambiguities of the debate, to distinguish between the various types of globalization and to warn the reader of conceptual traps.
Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a 'tradition' to itself? What if its...
Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.
A study of the nature of love in modern society. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, the authors argue, has become an empty category, which lovers themselves must fill...
"Ulrich Beck's panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has already been hailed as a classic. This first English edition will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as...