Risk Society and Reflexive ModernizationQuiz

1.

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:

3.

The distinction between 'external' and 'manufactured' risk, central to Beck and Giddens, is:

4.

Beck's concept of 'sub-politics' refers to:

5.

Anthony Giddens's 'reflexive project of the self' describes:

6.

Explain why Beck argues that manufactured risks reshape democratic politics, and give one example of a contemporary 'sub-political' conflict that fits his framework.