Second modernity
Template:Short description Second modernity is a phrase coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck, and is his word for the period after modernity.
Where modernity broke down agricultural society in favour of industrial society, second modernity transforms industrial society into a new and more reflexive network society or information society.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Risk society
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Knowledge society
Second modernity has also been linked[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed] to the so-called knowledge society, marked by a pluralisation of different types of knowledge.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. It is characterised in particular by knowledge-dependent risks — the uncertainties manufactured by the information world itself.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Resistance
Various forms of resistance to second modernity have emerged, among them, for example, Euroscepticism.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Beck sees al-Qaeda as a by-product of, as well as resistance to, second modernity, not only in its use of information-technology tools, but also in its syncretist ideology.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
See also
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References
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Sources
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- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Beck, Ulrich. 2006. The Cosmopolitan Vision, translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press. Template:ISBN (cloth); Template:ISBN (pbk).
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Further reading
- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Carrier, Martin, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, and Philippe Blanchard (eds.). 2004. Knowledge and the World: Challenges beyond the Science Wars. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin and New York: Springer-Verlag, ; Template:ISBN.
- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Carrier, Martin. 2006. Wissenschaftstheorie zur Einführung. Zur Einführung 317. Hamburg: Junius. Template:ISBN (pbk).
- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J. 2010. "Aesthetic Shifts from the Avant-garde towards the 'Second Modernity': The Swaddling of a New Compositional Thinking. In Beyond the Centres: Musical Avant Gardes since 1950". In In Memoriam Yannis Andreou Papaioannou (1910–1989), edited by Kōstas Tsougkras (Κώστας Τσούγκρας), Danaī Maria Stefanou (Δανάη Μαρία Στεφάνου), and Kōstas Chardas (Κώστας Χάρδας). Greece: s.n.
- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig (eds.). 2008. Facets of the Second Modernity. New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century 6. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag. Template:ISBN.
- Page Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.Sørensen, Mads Peter; and Christiensen, Allan. 2012. Ulrich Beck: An Introduction to the Theory of Second Modernity and the Risk Society. New York: Routledge. Template:ISBN (hardback); Template:ISBN (ebook).
