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<\/a>Ulrich Beck (1944-2015), one of the most creative and innovative sociologists the profession has seen, was Professor for Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU), British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l\u2019Homme (FMSH) in Paris. In 2012 Ulrich Beck received an Advanced Investigator Grant for \u2018Methodological Cosmopolitanism \u2013 In the Laboratory of Climate Change\u2019 from the European Research Council. Beck was the editor of the series \u2018Edition Second Modernity\u2019 at Suhrkamp and co-editor of the social-scientific journal \u2018Soziale Welt\u2019.<\/p>\nHis book \u2018Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity\u2019, first published in 1986 was translated into more than 25 languages. The term \u2018risk society\u2019 coined in that book established his international reputation extending it also far beyond academic circles. Twenty years later he renewed and extended his diagnostic theory in the monograph \u2018World at Risk: In Search of Lost Security\u2019 under the banner of terrorism, climate catastrophies and financial crisis.<\/p>\n
The \u2018theory of reflexive modernization\u2019 which Ulrich Beck developed contains three complex arguments: the theorem of world risk society, the theorem of forced individualization, and the theorem of multifaceted modernization or cosmopolitization. All three theorems are radicalized forms of a modernization dynamic which at the beginning of the 21st<\/sup> century, when turned against itself, is dissolving First Modernity.<\/p>\n In his scientific works Ulrich Beck engaged, among other things, with the themes of: (World) Risk Society and Manufactured Uncertainties, Individualisation and Social Inequality; Globalism and Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitization, Methodological Nationalism and Methodological Cosmopolitanism in the Social Sciences.<\/p>\n Ulrich Beck published regularly about current topics in renowned national and international newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Personal Data Ulrich Beck (1944-2015), one of the most creative and innovative sociologists the profession has seen, was Professor for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-life.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchiv-ulrich-beck.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Curriculum Vitae<\/h1>\n
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\n 1944<\/td>\n Born in Stolp\/Pomerania; childhood in Hanover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1961-1962<\/td>\n Foreign exchange student, American Field Service (AFS); High School Diploma in Springfield, Min., USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1966<\/td>\n Started university, studying Law in Freiburg; transferred to the LMU Munich after one term to study Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology and Political Science; Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1972-1979<\/td>\n LMU Munich, Research Fellow at the Research Centre on \u2018Social Scientific Perspectives on Occupational Change, Labour Market and Work Conditions\u2019, financed by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft \u2013 DFG)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1974<\/td>\n 1974 Dr. Phil. in Sociology at the LMU Munich on \u2018Objectivity and Normativity: The Theory-Praxis Debate in Modern German and American Sociology\u2019 (submitted in 1972 at the University of Munich and published by Rowohlt: Reinbek near Hamburg) (summa cum laude)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1979<\/td>\n 1979 Habilitation at the LMU Munich on \u2018Social Reality as the Product of Social Labor: Foundations for a Subject-Centered Sociology of Labor and Professions\u2019 (submitted in 1978 at the University of Munich, unpublished)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1979-1981<\/td>\n Professor of Sociology at the University of M\u00fcnster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1980-2014<\/td>\n Co-Editor of the journal \u2018Soziale Welt\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1981-1992<\/td>\n Professor of Sociology at the University of Bamberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1981-1988<\/td>\n Founding Director of the National Research Centre \u2018Uses of Social Science\u2019, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1989-1990<\/td>\n Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (KWI, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1990-1991<\/td>\n Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1992-2014<\/td>\n Professor of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1995-1997<\/td>\n Member of the Commission for Future Questions established by the State of Bavaria and the State of Saxony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1995-1997<\/td>\n Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Wales College of Cardiff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1997-2014<\/td>\n Editor of \u2018Second Modernity\u2019, book series published by Suhrkamp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1999-2009<\/td>\n Founding Director of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 536) \u2018Reflexive Modernization\u2019 at the LMU Munich, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2005<\/td>\n Offer of the Chair for Sociology, University Cambridge, as successor to Anthony Giddens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2011<\/td>\n Member of the Ethics Commission of the German Government on the evaluation of nuclear energy and its alternatives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2011-2014<\/td>\n Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l\u2019Homme, Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2013-2014<\/td>\n Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project: \u2018Methodological Cosmopolitanism \u2013 In the Laboratory of Climate Change\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Honorary Doctorates<\/h2>\n
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