U. Von Beck's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
Individualization theory has been understood as a way of challenging the common paradigms within the studies of social inequality. This shift also addresses how the transnationalization of social inequalities challenges and alters the given framework of institutional settings - nation state (parties), trade unions, welfare state systems and the nat...
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... The mentioned problems are embedded in a current period of social change that has led sociologists like Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Manuel Castells or Zygmunt Bauman to develop narratives resembling very much the classic authors of sociology, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Max Weber in their attempt to understand and explain large scale processes, who did the same between the mid-19 th and the early 20 th century. Beck (1986) coined the term "Second modernity" for the ongoing changes to highlight their structural comparability with the great changes that shook Western societies on their way to modernity -or better: to what had used to be called modernity, namely the institutions of industrial society perceived as breathtakingly modern in the 1950s when comparing to the 1830s, which look so depressingly traditional when judged from today's view. ...
