Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have...
Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural...
Seit fast 30 Jahren der einzige von und für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer gemachte Taschenkalender für den Schulalltag. Kalenderium schuljahresbezogen von August 2005 bis Juli 2006.
Develops concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology, into a sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. This book attempts to recover an authentically European tradition of a cosmopolitan openness to...
This volume examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and aims to present a new vision for the future. The author begins by describing how the traditional work society is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be sudden...
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.
A fines del siglo XVIII Kant planteó el interrogante "¿cómo es posible el conocimiento?". Doscientos años más tarde nos preguntamos "¿cómo es posible la creación (política)?"....
Argues that the conflicts of the future will no longer be between East and West, between communism and capitalism, but between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary modernization and those that are attempting to relativize and reform the...
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...