Rizikos bei dvigubos rizikos visuomenės teorija ir jos taikymas sociologinei Lietuvos visuomenės raidos diagnostikai
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2487397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonardas Rinkevičius (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pages | 108-115 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologija Mintis ir veiksmas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1392-3358 • E-ISSN: 2335-8890 |
| Publisher | Vilnius University Press (PUBLISHER • LT) |
| DOI | 10.15388/socmintvei.2002.2.6170 |
| OpenAlex | W1929251294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper aims at diagnosing the current state and change of Lithuanian society from the perspective of a theory of risk-society (Beck, 1992) and reflexive modernization (Beck, Giddens, Lash, 1994). Paper illuminates a 'double-risk' character of Lithuanian society arguing that contemporary transitional and developing societies, e.g. Lithuanian, are turning into 'risk-societies' not after the urgent issues of social distribution of 'goods' are resolved, as the risk-society theory would suggest in the case of Western affluent societies. By contrast, a 'double-risk' society is characterised by mutual acuteness and inter-twined importance of both kinds of societal issues: creation and distribution of social welfare ('goods') as well as reduction and social distribution of risks ('bads'). A double-risk society, similarly as a risk society is characterized by decreasing unquestionable faith in the modern institutions of science and technology, whereas a double risk-society is characterized by the painful and complex processes of transition from state-socialism that leads to disillusionment in other institutional pillars of modern society, namely the market economy and democratic governance. At the same time, a double-risk society encompasses and reflects most of the features pertaining to the risk-society - depleting social and geographical 'boundaries vis-a-vis societal exposure to the variety of risks (environmental, nuclear); increasing importance of sub-politics with its characteristic aspects-vested interests and manipulative capacity of certain professions to shape social perceptions of risk; and decreased societal faith in the capacity of modern institutions of science and technology to cope with the globalizing risks
Civil society · Contemporary society · Economic growth · Economics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Risk society · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Welfare state · Agricultural risk and resilience · Law
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |