See also: Beck

Ulrich Beck (born the May 15th 1944 with Stolp, today Słupsk in Poland) is a German Sociologue.

It is interested in the consequences of the changes brought by the developments Industriel S and technological. In particular, it notes a change of company, where the key question is the spread of the risk. He also wonders about a company to come within the framework from the Mondialisation, where the value of the future could be the Cosmopolitisme.

Beck insists on the tolerance with the risk which, according to him, while dropping, augemente the request for assurability.

Works translated into French

• 2001 : the company of the risk. On the way of another modernity , Paris: Editions Sapwood.

• 2003 : To be able and countervailing power at the era of universalization .
• December 2004: “The truth of the others. A cosmopolitic vision of the otherness” translates English by Régine Temam, in Cosmopolitiques: Editions of the paddle , cosmopolitic Practices of the right.
• 2006 : What cosmopolitanism? , Paris: Editions Sapwood.
• 2007 : with Edgar Large, For a European empire , Paris: Flammarion editions.

Concepts developed by Dr. Ulrich Beck

• " Effect; ascenseur" (" grain elevator effect ")
• Company of the risk (Risk society)
• the Second modernity (Second modernity)
• reflexive Modernity (Reflexive modernization)
• methodological Cosmopolitanism

External bonds

• Introduction to the sociology (cosmo) political of the risk of Ulrich Beck
• Summarized article of Ulrich Beck “the conflict of two modernities and the question of the disappearance of solidarity: Personal bonds, collective bonds”, 1994