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"Reflexive modernization" as a book category covers works that examine how modern societies increasingly turn their own institutions, practices and expert knowledge back upon themselves, producing new kinds of uncertainty, risk and self-critique. Grounded in sociological theory (notably Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash), these books analyze how industrial and technological advances, globalization, and environmental crises force continual re-evaluation of progress, identity, governance and expertise; common themes include risk society, individualization, technoscience, institutional transformation, policy responses and ethics. The category is interdisciplinary—combining theory, empirical case studies and policy analysis—and appeals to scholars, students and informed readers interested in how contemporary social change creates both opportunities and new problems that require reflexive, often contested, solutions.

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