Kairos der Risikogesellschaft

In the published version of the PhD Dissertation about the "Kairos of Risk society", G. Panzer comments the success of Beck’s famous concept. The introduction of the idea of "Risk society" changed the frame of sociologogy, finds the author. Panzer examines particularly the factors of risk and uncertainety which are rising up inside the process of rationalization.

He asks, how the sociological concepts of "normalisation" or "social change" have to be re-defined in this context, and if new concepts are necessary.

Document : "Kairos der Risikogesellschaft", Kassel University Press, 2001

Kairos der Risikogesellschaft