That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
