Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beckwas a well known German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization" . He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. He was a professor at the University of...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth15 May 1944
CountryGermany
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.