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The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70
8 years agoAmid the encomiums and eulogies surrounding the late German sociologist Ulrich Beck, Robert Dingwall asks how far Beck’s body of published work represents a model that other sociologists should seek to follow
8 years agoMuch destruction of human potential takes the form of a “slow violence” that extends over time. It is insidious, undramatic and relatively invisible.
10 years ago