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Ulrich Beck

1944 - 2015

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Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization". He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulrich Beck has received more than 389,367 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ulrich Beck is the 12th most popular sociologist (up from 14th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Poland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Sociologist.

Ulrich Beck is a German sociologist who is most famous for his theory of risk society.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Ulrich Beck ranks 12 out of 79. Before him are Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, and Marcel Mauss. After him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Karl Mannheim, Manuel Castells, and Pitirim Sorokin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ulrich Beck ranks 36. Before him are Diana Ross, Danny Trejo, Dietrich Mateschitz, Vojislav Koštunica, Françoise Hardy, and Sebastião Salgado. After him are Luigi Riva, Yoweri Museveni, Helmut Berger, Ibrahim Rugova, Robert Kardashian, and Rajiv Gandhi. Among people deceased in 2015, Ulrich Beck ranks 22. Before him are Henning Mankell, Josef Masopust, Laura Antonelli, Val Logsdon Fitch, Kim Young-sam, and Richard von Weizsäcker. After him are Leonard Nimoy, Lemmy, Yitzhak Navon, Tariq Aziz, Otto Carius, and Kenan Evren.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ulrich Beck ranks 101 out of 1,694. Before him are Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512). After him are Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), and Hanna Reitsch (1912).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among sociologists born in Poland, Ulrich Beck ranks 2. Before him are Norbert Elias (1897). After him are Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), and Grażyna Gęsicka (1951).

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