@article{ref1,
title="Second modernity as a research agenda: theoretical and empirical explorations in the 'meta-change' of modern society",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2005",
author="Beck, Ulrich and Lau, Christoph",
volume="56",
number="4",
pages="525-557",
abstract="In this article we are reformulating the theory of reflexive modernization as an empirical research programme and summarize some of the most recent findings which have been produced by a research consortium in Munich (integrating four universities, funded by the German Research Society (DFG)). On this basis we reject the idea that Western societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century move from the modern to the post-modern. We argue that there has been no clear break with the basic principles of modernity but rather a transformation of basic institutions of modernity such as the nation-state and the nuclear family. We would suggest, therefore, that what we are witnessing is a second modernity. Finally, we reform the theory of reflexive modernization in reaction to three uttered objections.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00082.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00082.x"
}