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Risk Society and Reflexive Modernization

Jens O. Zinn

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This chapter contains sections titled: From Risk Society and Individualization to Reflexive Modernization The Power of New Risks: the Enforced Risk Society The Self-Transformation of the Social: Institutional Individualism The Political within Risk Society and Reflexive Modernization Risks and Uncertainties in Reflexive Modernity Critique Perspectives Further Reading

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Key concepts: Reflexivity, Risk society, Modernization theory, Modernity, Individualism, Reading (process), Sociology, Politics