Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 3, pp. 1-1
The 1980s and 1990s were marked by a series of food crisis, environmental disasters and the emergence of so-called 'superbugs'. At the same time, social scientists, such as Ulrich Beck, began to study the rise of a modern \'risk society\'. The late 1990s and early years of this new millennium...