Risk Society and Ecological Problem.

リスク シャカイ ト エコロジー モンダイ

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

リフレクシブモダニゼーション

U.ベック

エコロジー

連帯個人主義

Risk society

reflexive modernization

U. Beck

ecology

solidary individualism

The concept of "Risk Society" that a german sociologist Ulrich Beck proposed is capable of explaining the relation of the modernisation process to the devastation of nature. According to Beck, the logic of distribution of risk is dominating in a contempolary society in place of the logic of distribution of resource. In the risk epoch, the grobal risks which the consequence of modemisation inconsciously produced are threatening the institutions of industrial modernity itself. Beck's theory of Risk society is interesting and influential, but his theory has certains difficulties. He argues that in the individualisation process the social class is dissolving . But that is oversimplification. R. Murphy introduce the concept of environmental class in place of individualisation. And there is Alexander's critic that Beck fails to acknowledge a mediating cultural variable influencing the timelag between objective risk and risk perception. We discussed that solidary individualism which forme the life style group is cultural specificity in individualisation of the conduct of life. Berking's solidary individualism focus on cultural formation in the course of individualisation which form the new normative obligation, but not institutionally. The individualised individual participate reflexively in the post-traditional community in which ecological risk consciousness would be grown.

英語