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according to the sociologist Ulrich Beck risk is defined as ‘the modern approach to foresee and control the future
consequences of human action’ which were the ‘unintended consequences of
radicalized modernization’ (Beck, 1999, 3). Daniell ‘focuses primarily on the negative
concept of risk’, which for corporate strategists impacted on prioritization, resource
allocation and opportunity cost (Daniell, 2000, 10, 12). Risk had ‘become a major
force of political mobilization’: a discourse that rendered traditional political
categories obsolete (Beck, 1999, 4).
‘Systemic events’—the aforementioned geopolitical crises, the Exxon Valdez and
Challenger disasters, and the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy scare—both
defined risk in the public consciousness (being ‘staged in the mass media’) and
showed that industrial societies were generating hazards ‘that they could not control’
(Beck, 1999, 51, 44, 72). ‘Compounded risk’ had become the new meta-norm in a
networked society (Daniell, 2000, 18).
first,how could define risk society,
second, what risks do people face in the modern world and in what ways are we exposed to fewr dangers than previous generations and
third to what extend do we have control over our own safety??
consequences of human action’ which were the ‘unintended consequences of
radicalized modernization’ (Beck, 1999, 3). Daniell ‘focuses primarily on the negative
concept of risk’, which for corporate strategists impacted on prioritization, resource
allocation and opportunity cost (Daniell, 2000, 10, 12). Risk had ‘become a major
force of political mobilization’: a discourse that rendered traditional political
categories obsolete (Beck, 1999, 4).
‘Systemic events’—the aforementioned geopolitical crises, the Exxon Valdez and
Challenger disasters, and the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy scare—both
defined risk in the public consciousness (being ‘staged in the mass media’) and
showed that industrial societies were generating hazards ‘that they could not control’
(Beck, 1999, 51, 44, 72). ‘Compounded risk’ had become the new meta-norm in a
networked society (Daniell, 2000, 18).
first,how could define risk society,
second, what risks do people face in the modern world and in what ways are we exposed to fewr dangers than previous generations and
third to what extend do we have control over our own safety??