Risk Society
"Risk society" is a term that emerged during the 1990s to describe the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk. The term is closely associated with several key writers on modernity, in particular Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck . The term's popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider modernity, and also to its links to popular discourse, in particular the growing environmental concerns during the period.
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