Week 12 Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
Precarity
A
Uncertainty and exposure to possible risk and harm
2
Q
Beck’s theory
A
Contemporary society is organized around dealing with problems that contemporary society creates - we move away from society being based on class to being based around the unequal creation and exposure of risks.
3
Q
Giddens’ theory
A
Increasing aware of safety of our future which generates the notion of risk
4
Q
Liquid modernity
A
As we are more free we are most susceptible to precarity and risk
5
Q
Ontological security
A
Certainty in events and self -philosophy of the the future
