Ulrich Beck

Dr. Ulrich Beck (b. May 15, 1944) is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics. He studies modernization, ecological problems, individualization and globalization. Recently he has also embarked on exploring the changing conditions of work in a world of increasing global capitalism, declining influence of unions and flexibilisation of the labor process. He is married to the German social scientist Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.

Works

Beck is the editor of the sociological journal Soziale Welt (since 1980), the author of some 150 articles, and the author or editor of many books, for example:

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• Risikogesellschaft - Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (1986) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risikogesellschaft (Risk Society)
• Beck, Ulrich (1988) Gegengifte : die organisierte Unverantwortlichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Beck, Ulrich (1992) Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London : Sage
• Riskante Freiheiten - Gesellschaftliche Individualisierungsprozesse in der Moderne (1994, editor together with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim)
• Beck, Ulrich & Giddens, Anthony & Lash Scott (1994) Reflexive Modernization.Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge : Polity Press.
• Eigenes Leben - Ausflüge in die unbekannte Gesellschaft, in der wir leben (1995, together with W. Vossenkuhl and U. E. Ziegler, photographs by T. Rautert)
• Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth & Beck, Ulrich (1995) The Normal Chaos of Love. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Beck, Ulrich (1995) Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk. Cambridge : Polity Press.
• Beck, Ulrich (1996) The Reinvention of Politics.Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. Cambridge : Polity Press.
• Was ist Globalisierung? (1997)
• Beck, Ulrich (1998) Democracy without Enemies. Cambridge : Polity Press.
• Beck, Ulrich (1998) World Risk Society. Cambridge : ¨Polity Press.
• Beck, Ulrich (1999) What Is Globalization?. Cambridge : Polity Press.
• Beck, Ulrich (2000) The Brave New World of Work. Cambridge: University Press.
• Adam, Barbara & Beck, Ulrich & Van Loon, Joost (2000) The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory. London: Sage.
• Beck, Ulrich & Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (2002) Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences. London : Sage.
• Beck, Ulrich & Willms, Johannes (2003) Conversations with Ulrich Beck. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Beck has brought many newly-coined terms to (German) sociology, namely Fahrstuhleffekt (elevator effect), Risikogesellschaft (risk society) and Zweite Moderne (second modernity, see also reflexive modernization and post-modernity).

Related Topics:
Elevator effect - Risk society - Second modernity - Reflexive modernization - Post-modernity

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