Global Risk Society WNP-PEZ-GSR
Society of risk in U. Beck conception.
Individualized society, individualized risk and instability.
The future of education, work and labour market.
Global risk society and different spaces of risk:
personal and family risk,
educational and professional risk,
communicational risk in transcultural world,
economical and financial risk,
ecological and biotechnological risk,
modernization and political risk.
Globalization of risk and its consequences.
Reflexive modernization - forward to another modernity.
Subject level
(in Polish) Punkty ECTS
Learning outcome code/codes
Learning outcomes
Student has knowledge of global risk society and how it works.
Student understand and try to analyse all different economical, social and cultural conditions of the process of globalization.
Student is able to use this knowledge to anticipate and make some prognosis for individuals or groups on the global labour market.
ECTS: 4
lecture - 30 h
studying literature - 25 h
konsulting and creating conception - 20 h
preparing presentation - 25 h
Assessment criteria
Evaluation: presentation in groups.
Criteria of evaluation:
vision of globalization in general - 3
understanding global processes - 4
making own prognosis of risk - 5
Bibliography
U. Beck: Risk Society. Forward to another modernity. 2004.
U. Beck: Global Risk Society. Looking for the Lost Security. 2012.
A. Giddens: Consequences of Modernity. 2008.
M. Castells: Movements of Grief and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. 2013.
Z. Baumaan: Globalization. 2000., J. Stiglitz: Globalization.2002.
J. Stiglitz: Vision of Just Globalization. Some Proposals. 2007.
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