Ulrich Beck

Date of Birth:

15-May-1944

Nationality:

Germany

Profession:

Sociologist

Ulrich Beck (1944-2015), one of the founding sociologists of the profession, was Professor of Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU), British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) in Paris. In 2012 Ulrich Beck received the Advanced Researcher's Grant for 'Chemical cosmopolitanism - Climate Change Laboratory' from the European Research Council. Beck was the editor of the 'Edible Secondity' series at Suhrkamp and co-editor of the social science journal 'Soziale Welt'. His organization 'Accidents. In Towards a New Modernity ', first published in 1986 and translated into more than 25 languages. The term 'endangered society' established in that book has established its international reputation that has expanded and far surpassed academic circles. Twenty years later he revived and expanded his vision for information in the monograph 'World at Risk: In Search of Lost Security' under the banner of terrorism, crisis and financial hardship. The 'modernist' theory developed by Ulrich Beck consists of three complex issues: the doctrine of an endangered world society, the doctrine of personal emphasis, and the idea of re-enlarging or expanding the world. All three of these decisions are the turning points of the miracle that took place at the beginning of the 21st century, when they turned against each other, destroying First Modernity. In his scientific work Ulrich Beck engaged, among other things, on the themes of: (World) Risk Society and the Production Uncertainties, Individualisation and Social Inequality; Globalism and Globalization, cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitization, Methodist Nationalism and Methodist Methodism in Social Science. Ulrich Beck has regularly published current articles in popular national and international journals.

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“The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.”

“Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.”

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.