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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"ulrich beck"”.
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Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in International Environmental Negotiations
… action. Using theorizing of “risk society” from Ulrich Beck and others, this thesis examines how countries, environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and business interests construct the risk of climate change and how their respective discourses conflict in international environmental …
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Die Zähmung der Zweckrationalität in der deutschen Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts : die Rationalisierungsproblematik bei Weber, Horkheimer/Adrono, Habermas und Beck
… <br> <br>Kapitel 5 Reflexive Modernisierung: Ulrich Beck und die Zweite Moderne <br>5.1 Becks Kritik an der instrumentellen Vernunft <br>5.2 Becks Loesungsvorschlag: reflexive Modernisierung oder Modernisierung der Moderne <br>5.3 Kritik <br>5.4 Zusammenfassung <br> <br>Kapitel 6 Schluss …
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'Anything's risky': a theoretical examination of adolescent risk decisions
… theories; (1) risk society thesis (espoused by Ulrich Beck), (2) cultural theory (championed by Mary Douglas) and (3) governmentality (developed by Michel Foucault). The analysis utilises a variety of risk behaviours (as defined by the respondents) to construct a more comprehensive understanding …
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Sustainable development : the reflexive governance of risk
… these events into governance frameworks. For Ulrich Beck, increased risk has created a World Risk Society which is defined by a state of 'reflexive' modernity (RM) where the central tenets of modernity are re-examined and current developmental patterns are drawn into question. In political and …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
… and the public management of risk offered by Ulrich Beck with some social studies of the production and use of space. These critiques reveal aspects of everyday life that comprise a distinctly disengaged mode of person-world interaction. This mode of subjective worldly interaction frustrates …
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Az etikus fogyasztás mint a közügyekben való részvétel = Ethical consumption as public participation
… A mikroszinten megfigyelt jelenséget Ulrich Beck reflexív modernizáció és szubpolitika elmélete írja le a makroszociológia nyelvén (Beck 2003, 1997a, 2005). Beck elmélete egységes keretben foglalja össze a fogyasztók/állampolgárok változó környezeti érzékenységét, a globalizáció …
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Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages.
… the notion of ‘risk society’, introduced by Ulrich Beck in 1992, is considered as a shifting paradigm in world security, where our modern society becomes ever more interdependent and more complex, and consequently more vulnerable to threats and risks. Traditionally, planning plays a central …
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On Not Learning Chinese: Multiple Chineseness of the Chinese Schools in the Philippines
… light of the ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ of Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider (2006), this thesis aims to investigate the multiplicity of Chineseness produced in the Chinese schools in the Philippines. The study draws on participant observation based on my one-year teaching in a …
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Constructions of 'gendered agency' : Perspectives from a multi-ethnic Sure Start programme.
Theorists such as Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim have presented an 'individualisation thesis' which states that in our 'de-traditionalised', globalised world of late modernity, identities are now fluid and individual trajectories no longer fixed; as 'reflexive agents', we …
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Geistig behinderte alte Menschen in Wohnheimen
… „Ende der >alten Moderne<“ etc. u. a. von Ulrich Beck in sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien verarbeitet wurden (2.2.1). Ferner werden die Akzentverschiebungen in den (post-)modernen Gesellschaften am Wandel des Altersbildes erläutert, wo teilweise die „Neuen Alten“ gegen die „Alten Alten“ …