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Oleg Yanitskyi 1
  • 1 Institute of Sociology of the RAS, 24/35-5, Krzhizhanovskogo Street, Moscow, 117218, Russia

The «critical case»: Social order in the «Risk society»

2002, vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 86–99 [issue contents]

This article analyzes the phenomenon of the “critical case”, which is the condition of “risk society”, when production of disasters and destructions is the dominant method of social production. These cases can arise in the way of continuous social devolution and they can be constructed by political methods. The considered case is the legitimization of risks’ production, which is favorable to the forces located outside the critical zone. This case is a humanitarian disaster, which leads to irreparable damage of a human capital. In the considered case social order loses its universal nature and becomes privatized. In other words, the “critical case” is irrational social order, which forces sociologists reconsider the issue of norm and pathology etc.

Citation: Yanitskyi O. (2002) «Kriticheskiy sluchay»: sotsial'nyy poryadok v «obshchestve riska» [The «critical case»: Social order in the «Risk society»]. The Russian Sociological Review, vol. 2, no 2, pp. 86-99 (in Russian)
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