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Ulrich Beck  

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  • Ulrich Beck's work became widely known to an international audience in the early 1990s when his book Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986) was first published in English translation. Though the book is wide-ranging and often surprisingly impassioned in its arguments, most readers agree that he makes two novel claims. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Beck, Ulrich (1944–)]

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