Between Assurance Society and Risk Society. : Sociological Risk Studies

ホケン シャカイ ト リスク シャカイ ノ アイダニ シャカイガク ニオケル リスク ケンキュウ

カワノ, エイジ

Kawano, Eiji

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

保険社会

リスク社会

保険可能性の限界

警戒原則

Risk

Assurance society

Risk society

Limit of insurability

Principle of Precaution

The concept of Risk in sociology has developed after the catastrophe of Tschernobyl. Ulrich Beck proposed the conception of Risk society. According to him, risk is generalising in the late modernity in place of the distribution of the resources in the simple modernity. And Niklas Luhmann introduce the distinction Risk and danger ; "Risiko und Gefahr" and elabolate the concept of Risk sociologically. This paper aims to clarify the relation between the theory of Risk society and the conception of Assurance society that François Ewald proposed to analayse the historical developement of Welfare state; "État providence". According to Ewald, the process of assurancialisation that characterise the modernity has covered a variety of risk. But the contemporary society confront the limit of insurability because of the specificity of the new type risk that released the modernisation process itself. That is, there is the limit of insurability between Assurance society and Risk society. After the epoch of Assurance society that has been based on the principle of previncion and the control of risk, the new principle, "precaution", come to the front in Risk society.

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