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Ulrich Beck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • second modernity as a research agenda theoretical and empirical explorations in the meta change of modern society
    British Journal of Sociology, 2005
    Co-Authors: Ulrich Beck
    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.

  • the theory of Reflexive Modernization problematic hypotheses and research programme
    Theory Culture & Society, 2003
    Co-Authors: Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss
    Abstract:

    How can one distinguish the concept of second modernity from the concept of postmodernity? Postmodernists are interested in deconstruction without reconstruction, second modernity is about deconstruction and reconstruction. Social sciences need to construct new concepts to understand the world dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century.Modernity has not vanished, we are not post it. Radical social change has always been part of modernity. What is new is that modernity has begun to modernize its own foundations. This is what it means to say modernity has become Reflexive. It has become directed at itself. This causes huge new problems both in reality and in theory. There has been a pluralization of the boundaries within and between societies, between society and nature, between Us and Other, between life and death. This pluralization also changes the inherent nature of boundaries. They become not so much boundaries as a variety of attempts to draw of boundaries. Border conflicts become transformed into ...

  • Reflexive Modernization politics tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order
    1994
    Co-Authors: Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash
    Abstract:

    The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "Reflexive Modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has already become extraordinarily influential. Beck offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting Reflexive Modernization with new issues to do with the state and political organization. Giddens offers an in-depth examination of the connections between "institutional reflexivity" and the de-traditionalizing of the modern world. We are entering, he argues, a phase of the development of a global society. A "global society" is not a world society, but one with universalizing tendencies. Lash develops the theme of Reflexive Modernization in relation the aesthetics and the interpretation of culture. In this domain, he suggests, we need to look again at the conventional theories of postmodernism; "aesthetic Modernization" has distinctive qualities that need to be uncovered and analyzed. In the concluding sections of the book, the three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints, providing a synthetic conclusion to the work as a whole.

Geoff Walsham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Shifting boundaries and new technologies: A case study in the UK banking sector
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 1999
    Co-Authors: Susan V. Scott, Geoff Walsham
    Abstract:

    This paper describes case study based research on the use of innovative computer-based decision support systems introduced into corporate lending processes in a major UK bank. It describes how the new technology was implicated in shifting boundaries: within the sector as a whole and in specific organizational delayering; between local/global dimensions of the loans process; and in the status of expertise and personal/professional risk. The case study is connected to broader debates in IS and social transformation through an analyses which relates aspects of the empirical material to themes from social theories of Reflexive Modernization. Some implications and conclusions are drawn for both the banking sector and IS research.

  • ICIS - Shifting boundaries and new technologies: a case study in the UK banking sector
    1998
    Co-Authors: Susan V. Scott, Geoff Walsham
    Abstract:

    This paper describes case study based research on the use of innovative computer-based decision support systems introduced into corporate lending processes in a major UK bank. It describes how the new technology was implicated in shifting boundaries: within the sector as a whole and in specific organizational delayering; between local/global dimensions of the loans process; and in the status of expertise and personal/professional risk. The case study is connected to broader debates in IS and social transformation through an analyses which relates aspects of the empirical material to themes from social theories of Reflexive Modernization. Some implications and conclusions are drawn for both the banking sector and IS research.

Ole Hanseth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Reflexive standardization: side effects and complexity in standard making
    MIS Quarterly, 2006
    Co-Authors: Ole Hanseth, Edoardo Jacucci, Miria Grisot, Margunn Aanestad
    Abstract:

    This paper addresses the general question proposed by the call of this special issue: "What historical or contingent events and factors influence the creation of ICT standards, and in particular, their success or failure?" Based on a case study conducted over a period of three years in a Norwegian hospital on the standardization process of an electronic patient record (EPR), the paper contributes to the current discussion on the conceptualization of standard-making in the field of Information Systems. By drawing upon the concepts of logic of ordering adopted from actor-network theory and upon reflexivity and the unexpected side effects adopted from Reflexive Modernization, the paper makes three key contributions: (1) it demonstrates the socio-technical complexity of IS standards and standardization efforts; (2) it shows how complexity generates Reflexive processes that undermine standardization aims; and (3) it suggests a theoretical interpretation of standardization complexity by using ideas from complexity theory and the theory of Reflexive Modernization. These research questions are addressed by offering an historical and contingent analysis of the complexity dynamics emerging from the case.

  • Complexity and Risk
    Risk Complexity and ICT, 1
    Co-Authors: Ole Hanseth
    Abstract:

    This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of solutions and our methods of dealing with them. The contributors demonstrate how the complexity of ICT solutions is increased by various integration efforts. Drawing upon theories of risk society and Reflexive Modernization, various case studies are used to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these control and management measures are shown to increase rather than decrease complexity and risk.

  • From Risk Management to ‘Organized Irresponsibility’? Risks and Risk Management in the Mobile Telcom Sector
    Risk Complexity and ICT, 1
    Co-Authors: Jennifer Blechar, Ole Hanseth
    Abstract:

    This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of solutions and our methods of dealing with them. The contributors demonstrate how the complexity of ICT solutions is increased by various integration efforts. Drawing upon theories of risk society and Reflexive Modernization, various case studies are used to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these control and management measures are shown to increase rather than decrease complexity and risk.

  • Reflexive Integration in the Development and Implementation of an Electronic Patient Record System
    Risk Complexity and ICT, 1
    Co-Authors: Ole Hanseth, Edoardo Jacucci, Miria Grisot, Margunn Aanestad
    Abstract:

    This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of solutions and our methods of dealing with them. The contributors demonstrate how the complexity of ICT solutions is increased by various integration efforts. Drawing upon theories of risk society and Reflexive Modernization, various case studies are used to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these control and management measures are shown to increase rather than decrease complexity and risk.

  • Introduction: Integration–Complexity–Risk – The Making of Information Systems Out-of-Control
    Risk Complexity and ICT, 1
    Co-Authors: Ole Hanseth
    Abstract:

    This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of solutions and our methods of dealing with them. The contributors demonstrate how the complexity of ICT solutions is increased by various integration efforts. Drawing upon theories of risk society and Reflexive Modernization, various case studies are used to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these control and management measures are shown to increase rather than decrease complexity and risk.

Susan V. Scott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Shifting boundaries and new technologies: A case study in the UK banking sector
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 1999
    Co-Authors: Susan V. Scott, Geoff Walsham
    Abstract:

    This paper describes case study based research on the use of innovative computer-based decision support systems introduced into corporate lending processes in a major UK bank. It describes how the new technology was implicated in shifting boundaries: within the sector as a whole and in specific organizational delayering; between local/global dimensions of the loans process; and in the status of expertise and personal/professional risk. The case study is connected to broader debates in IS and social transformation through an analyses which relates aspects of the empirical material to themes from social theories of Reflexive Modernization. Some implications and conclusions are drawn for both the banking sector and IS research.

  • ICIS - Shifting boundaries and new technologies: a case study in the UK banking sector
    1998
    Co-Authors: Susan V. Scott, Geoff Walsham
    Abstract:

    This paper describes case study based research on the use of innovative computer-based decision support systems introduced into corporate lending processes in a major UK bank. It describes how the new technology was implicated in shifting boundaries: within the sector as a whole and in specific organizational delayering; between local/global dimensions of the loans process; and in the status of expertise and personal/professional risk. The case study is connected to broader debates in IS and social transformation through an analyses which relates aspects of the empirical material to themes from social theories of Reflexive Modernization. Some implications and conclusions are drawn for both the banking sector and IS research.

Wolfgang Bonss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the theory of Reflexive Modernization problematic hypotheses and research programme
    Theory Culture & Society, 2003
    Co-Authors: Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss
    Abstract:

    How can one distinguish the concept of second modernity from the concept of postmodernity? Postmodernists are interested in deconstruction without reconstruction, second modernity is about deconstruction and reconstruction. Social sciences need to construct new concepts to understand the world dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century.Modernity has not vanished, we are not post it. Radical social change has always been part of modernity. What is new is that modernity has begun to modernize its own foundations. This is what it means to say modernity has become Reflexive. It has become directed at itself. This causes huge new problems both in reality and in theory. There has been a pluralization of the boundaries within and between societies, between society and nature, between Us and Other, between life and death. This pluralization also changes the inherent nature of boundaries. They become not so much boundaries as a variety of attempts to draw of boundaries. Border conflicts become transformed into ...