Ulrich Beck

Klaus Rasborg is Associate Professor of Social Dynamics and Change at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His key research interests include classical and modern sociology, social differentiation, inequality, individualization, reflexive modernity, world risk society and cosmopolitanism.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. What is risk?.-  3. The idea of the risk society.- 4.  Individualization – beyond class and social communities?.- Chapter 5. Reflexive modernity .- 6. The transformation of family, wage labour and politics in the (world) risk society.- 7. The world risk society as a cosmopolitan society?.- 8. The (world) risk society in a critical perspective.