Ulrich Beck
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2015) Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck, 2012 Born (1944-05-15)15 May 1944 Stolp, Germany (now Słupsk in Poland) Died 1 January 2015(2015-01-01) (aged 70) Nationality German Occupation Sociologist Ulrich Beck (May 15, 1944 – January 1, 2015) was a German sociologist. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity". He also pushed to replace the national perspectives that have predominated in sociological investigations to date with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. He was a professor at the University of Munich and also held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.