His findings on the “risk society” paved him a career that is granted only to a few sociologists. Many politicians gathered at him food for thought. Despite dire predictions, Ulrich Beck has remained an optimist -. To the last
The sociologist Ulrich Beck has died at the age of 70 years. This was confirmed by the spokesperson of the Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin, Tanja Postpischil, on Saturday. According to a report by Süddeutsche.de Beck died on January 1 of a heart attack.
Beck was one of the most influential and best-known social scientists of the past decades. Many politicians gathered at him food for thought. He became famous with his bestseller “risk society” (1986), which was translated into more than 35 languages and updated with the book “world risk society” of 2007.
society suffers from their victories
According to modern society does not suffer from their defeats, but to their victories: The 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 age pyramid breaks the social systems, because the medicine can people live longer
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.
criticism of security policy
The global world risks, as argued Beck, withdraw the controllability. He criticized the policy sometimes staging the terror and fear of terrorism use to bring uninhibited safety laws and monitoring instruments on the way
With humor, catchy images and traction published Beck -. Sometimes 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
Gabriel. We were all influenced by pelvic
The SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel Beck acknowledged as a pioneer of the policy. “We have all been affected in the last 30 years of his paradigmatic concepts and theorems that stimulated not only the international research, but also the political discourse,” Gabriel said in Berlin on Saturday. “Ulrich Beck was a precise analyst and valued advisor, who took up especially current social conditions and developed action orientation of scientific reflection and passed out.” Gabriel added: “His criticism of the wrong answers to the crisis in Europe under the heading” Merkiavelli “is all present in a special way.”
Beck was on May 15, 1944 in Stolp / Pomerania (now Slupsk / Poland). After moving the family to the West he grew up with his four sisters in Hanover. 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).
As a visiting professor he taught from 1995 to 1998 in Cardiff (Wales) and from 1997 at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) , In 2011 he became professor of the Paris Science Foundation Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH)
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