乌尔里希·贝克

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贝克教授生于德国斯托尔普（今波兰斯武普斯克）。从1966年起他在慕尼黑大学学习社会学、哲学、心理学和政治学。1972年，在获得博士学位之后，他开始在慕尼黑大学从事社会科学的工作。1979年他获得了大学讲师职位。先后在明斯特与巴姆贝格任教，1992年回到慕尼黑大学担任社会学教授。

Ulrich Beck (German: [bɛk]; 15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a 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 LMU Munich and also held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.

Life

Beck was born in the Pomeranian town of Stolp, Germany (now Słupsk in Poland), in 1944, and grew up in Hanover. He began university studies with a focus on law at the University of Freiburg, and from 1966 onwards studied sociology, philosophy, psychology and political science at LMU Munich. Starting in 1972, after earning a doctorate, he was employed at LMU Munich as a sociologist. In 1979, he qualified as a university lecturer with a habilitation thesis. He received appointments as professor at the University of Münster (1979–1981) and the University of Bamberg (1981–1992).……

Research contributions

For 25 years, Beck delivered new diagnoses to the following question: How can social and political thought and action in the face of radical global change (environmental destruction, financial crisis, global warming, the crisis of democracy and the nation-state institutions) be intertwined in a new modernity? A radicalized modernity, for Beck, attacks its own foundations. Institutions such as the nation-state and the family are globalized 'from the inside'.

Beck studied modernization, ecological problems, individualization and globalization.……

The Spinelli Group

On 15 September 2010, Beck supported the European Parliament's Spinelli Group initiative to reinvigorate federalism in the European Union. The Union of European Federalists and its youth organisation Young European Federalists promoted the idea of European federalism for over 60 years, with a "belief that only a European Federation, based on the idea of unity in diversity, could overcome the division of the European continent". Prominent supporters of the initiative have included Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff and Elmar Brok.

Awards

• 1996 Cultural Honor Prize of the City of Munich
• 1999 CICERO speaker price award

1999 German-British Forum Award for outstanding service to German-British relations (together with Anthony Giddens)

2004 Award of DGS for outstanding achievements in the field of public achievement in sociology

2005 Schader Prize, the most prestigious award for social scientists in Germany

2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to Future Research of the International Sociological Association

Works

Among his major works are:

Essays

”World citizens of all countries, unite! Democracy beyond the nation-state: Europe must make a beginning. Theses for a cosmopolitan manifesto”. (World Citizen manifest) in. The Time, 1998 No. 30

”The Society of the Less. The burst dream of the rise in Germany”, ZDF, 17 January 2005

”Gentle world power Europe. Vision of a cosmopolitan empire that no longer relies on national ideas”, in: Frankfurter Rundschau 5 July 2005

”Blind to reality”, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 3 September 2005

”Europe can not be built on the ruins of the nations”, with Anthony Giddens, In: The World, 1 October 2005

Interviews

“Freedom or capitalism”.……