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Mark Ritter
Bio: Mark Ritter is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Risk society. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications receiving 18415 citations.
Topics: Modernity, Risk society, Politics, Reflexive modernization, Civilization
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
Abstract: Introduction - Scott Lash and Brian Wynne PART ONE: LIVING ON THE VOLCANO OF CIVILIZATION - THE CONTOURS OF THE RISK SOCIETY On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution The Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society PART TWO: THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY - LIFE-FORMS AND THE DEMISE OF TRADITION Beyond Status and Class? 'I am I' Gendered Space and the Conflict Inside and Outside the Family Individualization, Institutionalization and Standardization Life Situations and Biographical Patterns De-Standardization of Labour PART THREE: REFLEXIVE MODERNIZATION: ON THE GENERALIZATION OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS Science Beyond Truth and Enlightenment? Opening up the Political
12,946 citations
3,022 citations
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss Free Love, Free Divorce and All For Love of a Child: Love, Our Secular Religion, Love or Freedom, Love to Liaison and Eve's Late Apple.
Abstract: Introduction. 1. Love or Freedom. 2. From Love to Liaison. 3. Free Love, Free Divorce. 4. All For Love of a Child. 5. Eve's Late Apple. 6. Love, Our Secular Religion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
1,426 citations
TL;DR: The Age of Side Effects: On the Politicization of Modernity as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the area of alternative modernity, where the individual return to society is discussed.
Abstract: Introduction. 1. The Age of Side Effects: On the Politicization of Modernity. 2. The Construction of the Other Side of Modernity: Counter--modernization. 3. Subpolitics -- The Individual Returns to Society. 4. Ways to Alternative Modernities. 5. The Reinvention of Politics. 6. The Art of Doubt. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
733 citations
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The authors The Renaissance of politics in Reflexive Modernity: Politicians Must Make a Response, and How Neighbours Become Jews: the Political Construction of the Stranger in the Age of Reflexive modernity.
Abstract: 1. Freedoma s Children. 2. What Comes After Postmodernity: The Conflict of Two Modernities. 3. The Withering Away of Solidarity: Places without Community and Communities without Places. 4. Perspectives on a Cultural Evolution of Work. 5. Capitalism without Work, or the Coming of Civil Society. 6. The Democratization of the Family, or the Unknown Art of Free Association. 7. Misunderstanding Reflexivity: the Controversy on Reflexive Modernization. 8. The Renaissance of Politics in Reflexive Modernity: Politicians Must Make a Response. 9. The Open City: Architecture in Reflexive Modernity. 10. How Neighbours Become Jews: the Political Construction of the Stranger in the Age of Reflexive Modernity. 11. Nation--States without Enemies: the Military and Democracy after the End of the Cold War. 12. Brief Introduction to Environmental Machiavellianism: Green Democracy from Below. 13. Freedom or Survival: the Utopia of Self--Limitation. Notes. References. Index.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss one of the pioneer projects regarding risk perception issues, which was originally titled Risikogesellshaft, Auf dem weg in eine andere Moderne or in English The society of risk, towards a new modernity.
Abstract: The present review discusses one of the pioneer projects authored by Ulrich Beck, regarding risk perception issues, which was originally titled Risikogesellshaft, Auf dem weg in eine andere Moderne or in English The society of risk, towards a new modernity. This review is part of a broader project related to a Social Psychology doctoral thesis on fears of travelling in urban circumstances.
3,656 citations
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16 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to improve the quality of the information provided by the user by using the information of the user's interaction with the service provider and the user.
Abstract: Сборник ведущих социологов и социальных теоретиков из США и Западной Европы, представляющих новую практическую парадигму, своего рода коллективный манифест прагматического поворота. Авторы позиционируют практическую парадигму относительно структурализма, герменевтики, семиотики. В книге обсуждается природа практического и неявного знания, навыков и практик, которые составляют фон социального порядка и поддерживают общую для любого коллектива систему смыслов.
3,344 citations
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28 Aug 2001
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a life of one's own in a runaway world individualization, globalization, and politics beyond status and class, where women on the way to the post-familial family from a Community of Need to Elective Affinities Division of Labour, Self-Imaging and Life Projects New Conflicts in the family Declining Birthrates and the Wish to Have Children Apparatuses Do Not Care for People Health and Responsibility in the Age of Genetic Technology Death of One's Own, Life of One' Own Hopes from Transience Freedom
Abstract: Losing the Traditional Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms' A Life of One's Own in a Runaway World Individualization, Globalization and Politics Beyond Status and Class? The Ambivalent Social Structure Poverty and Wealth in a 'Self-Driven Culture' From 'Living for Others' to 'A Life of One's Own' Individualization and Women On the Way to the Post-Familial Family From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities Division of Labour, Self-Imaging and Life Projects New Conflicts in the Family Declining Birthrates and the Wish to Have Children Apparatuses Do Not Care for People Health and Responsibility in the Age of Genetic Technology Death of One's Own, Life of One's Own Hopes from Transience Freedom's Children Freedom's Fathers Zombie Categories Interview with Ulrich Beck
2,475 citations
TL;DR: A more fruitful integrative paradigm of "sustaincentrism" is then articulated, and implications for organizational science are generated as if sustainability, extended community, and our Academy mattered as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Modern management theory is constricted by a fractured epistemology. which separates humanity from nature and truth from morality. Reintegration is necessary if organizational science is to support ecologically and socially sustainable development. This article posits requisites of such development and rejects the paradigms of conventional technocentrism and antithetical ecocentrism on grounds of incongruence. A more fruitful integrative paradigm of “sustaincentrism” is then articulated, and implications for organizational science are generated as if sustainability, extended community, and our Academy mattered.
1,993 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for understanding and supporting efforts aimed at "responsibly innovation" in emerging science and innovation, which is a major challenge for contemporary democracies.
1,826 citations