The internationally known German sociologist Ulrich Beck has died at the age of 70 years. This was confirmed on Saturday Beck Verlag, Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin. According to a report by Süddeutsche.de Beck died on January 1 of a heart attack.
Beck was one of the most cited sociologists in recent decades. He became famous with his bestseller “risk society” (1986), which was translated into more than 35 languages. The concept of “risk society” Beck made also beyond academic circles known.
criticism of politicians who promote specific fears
According to modern society does not suffer from their defeats, but on their Win: Global terrorism is a consequence of the victory of modernity. The climate crisis is threatening because industrialization has been so successful. Mass unemployment follows from the productivity gains. The population pyramid breaks the social systems, because the medicine allows people to live longer.
Some of the jobs created by him concepts have found their way into everyday language. . This includes not only “risk society” and “individualization” or “elevator effect”
Beck’s comments on the social construction of global risks in the “second modernity” found much approval: Because the risk – as the anticipation of a possible disaster – not is measurable, his felt extent of the definition depends. It can be dramatized or minimized transformed or be denied. And it must be seen as a hurricane, which is explained as the harbinger of global warming.
The global world risks, Beck argued, the controllability escape. He criticized the policy sometimes staging the terror and fear of terrorism use to bring uninhibited safety laws and monitoring instruments on the way.
Love also belonged to Becks themes
With humor, non-slip grip and images published Beck – occasionally with his wife and colleague Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim – a bestseller after another. In “The Normal Chaos of Love” (1990) and “distance love: life forms in the Global Age” (2011) described the couple’s destruction of traditional values and commitments, as well as the consequences of individualisation
Beck was on 15. . May 1944 in Stolp / Pomerania (now Slupsk / Poland). After moving the family to the West he grew up with his four sisters in Hanover.
After professorships in Münster and Bamberg, he was appointed in 1992 to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Also at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, he held professorships. From 1973 to 1979 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich, then a professor of sociology at the universities of Münster and Bamberg.
In 1992 he returned to Munich. As director of the Institute of Sociology he remained there until his retirement (2009). In 2011 he was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Federal Government for a “Secure Energy Supply”, which was given the Fukushima nuclear disaster pursue the question of whether the benefits of nuclear power outweigh their risks. A number of foreign universities awarded an honorary doctorate Beck has also won numerous awards.
Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) praised Beck on Saturday as “precise analyst and valued advisor”. “His criticism of the wrong answers to the crisis in Europe under the heading” Merkiavelli “is all present in a special way.”
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