Course Outline -- Week 13

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Wk 13 – Reflexive Modernization

Beck, Risk Society, introduction, preface, ch’s 1, 2, 8 (pp. 1-84, 183-236) (V)

Beck, Ulrich. 1994. "The Reinvention of Politics: Towards a Theory of Reflexive Modernization," pp. 1-55 in Beck, Giddens & Lash, eds. Reflexive Modernization (V)

Beck, Ulrich. 1992. "From Industrial Society to the Risk Society," Theory, Culture & Society 9:97-123. Reprinted in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Giddens, "Living in a Post-Traditional Society," pp. 56-109 in Beck, Giddens & Lash, eds. Reflexive Modernization (V)

Beck & Giddens, "Replies and Critiques," ch. 4 (pp. 174-197) in Beck, Giddens & Lash, eds. Reflexive Modernization (V)

Beck, "Risk Society and the Provident State," pp. 27-43 in Lash, et al., eds., Risk, Environment and Modernity (V)

Beck, World Risk Society, pp. TBD

Beck, Ecological Enlightenment, esp. ch. 10, "Sociology and the Ecological Issue"

Beck, The Reinvention of Politics

Cohen, ed., Risk in the Modern Age

Dryzek, Rational Ecology (V)

Giddens, Consequences of Modernity

Giddens, "Modernity Under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics," ch. 8 in Beyond Left and Right

Rosa, Eugene A., "Modern Theories of Society and the Environment: the Risk Society," in Spaargaren et al, eds., Environment and Global Modernity (RR)