Risk Society and Reflexive Modernization — Quiz
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Which event famously illustrated Beck's risk-society thesis and occurred in the same year the book was published?
2.
Ulrich Beck's *Risk Society* (1986) argues that late-industrial societies are transitioning from organizing around the distribution of goods to organizing around:
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The distinction between 'external' and 'manufactured' risk, central to Beck and Giddens, is:
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Beck's concept of 'sub-politics' refers to:
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Anthony Giddens's 'reflexive project of the self' describes:
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Explain why Beck argues that manufactured risks reshape democratic politics, and give one example of a contemporary 'sub-political' conflict that fits his framework.