By Ulrich Beck
During this new ebook, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms have interaction in a sequence of obtainable conversations that demonstrate and discover the main parts in Beck’s inspiration.
- Ulrich Beck, the most very important and influential modern social thinkers, unearths and expands his paintings in a sequence of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.
- These conversations shed new mild onto the foremost issues in Beck’s paintings and supply an perception into a number of the commitments and ideology that they relaxation upon.
- Includes new considering at the hazard society and on globalisation, topics that experience placed him on the vanguard of up to date debates.
- Witten in a transparent and lucid manner and hence perfect for somebody trying to come to grips with Beck’s paintings.
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What your English friends have called “another dimension of analysis”? Exactly. One is left analyzing what those English theorists have called the interconnectedness of nation-states, in which the framework of globalization is seen as simply an additional dimension of analysis. This perspective of globalization as an add-on never really puts the nation-state into question. In addition, the term “inter-connectedness” is at its heart euphemistic, because it implies symmetry where there are often in fact very asymmetrical relationships.
People always want to know whether it’s an optimistic scenario or a disaster scenario, when the whole point is that it’s neither, it’s a new frame of reference for interpreting new social structures. Within this new framework, we can sketch out various scenarios as a means of clarifying our thinking. But my attempt is to lay a new foundation for social interpretation. It has nothing to do with optimism. If we look back at the nineteenth century, we might say that all the classical sociologists were optimists when compared with their contemporaries.
Social and spatial borders now vary independently of each other. Both kinds of border still exist, both are still important, and both are being constantly redrawn and reinforced. But to understand them, we need to rethink their relation from the ground up. The second shaky principle is the belief that to understand individuals sociologically, we have to subsume them under pre-existing social collectivities. Sociology understands the individual as largely determined by the situation in which she finds herself, and we mainly conceptualize this situation as assigned (rather than as chosen).