Practice question · Select all that apply
Which claims about Beck’s concept of manufactured risk are accurate?
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- Three of these describe why Beck thought the new hazards were different in kind; one restores the older account of distribution.
- His argument turns on risks that do not respect the boundaries that make inequality manageable.
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- B. Their probabilities resist confident expert calculation, which weakens the authority of expertise
- C. They are not reliably contained within the groups or regions that generate them
- D. The hazards are produced by industrial and technical decisions rather than by nature
Why
The first option is precisely the position Beck was arguing against. His claim is that manufactured risks follow a different logic from goods, they attach to exposure rather than to purchasing power, and they cross the boundaries that let wealth be concentrated safely, which is why he expected them to reorganise politics.
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