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• Globalization theory of late modernity and identities in risk society

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  Balazs Bocskei

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  Modernity is the sum of the fragmented cultural systems of meaning, that are mutually influential
  on each other, plus of economic and political relations continually changing and transforming –
  a complexity that manifests itself in the structure of the (world) risk society even on the level of
  the individual. Following the late modern turn, the phenomenon of the means and opportunities
  determining the ability of choice is not being shared equally, but multiplied as regards global
  actors, as well as choice of identity, perceptibility of risks and facing them. The study presents
  the new inequality factors and the asymmetric power relations of the late modernity along the
  works by the recently died sociologists of the globalization theory (Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt
  Bauman). In the world risk society, each community and individual bear the risks indifferently.
  Accordingly, the ascertainments of the study are that the globalised economy and the subjects
  of the local poverty do not possess the same degree of the freedom of maneuvering. In order
  to demonstrate this and also to identify each postmodern life-strategy, the study relies on the
  works on identity by the discussed sociologists. According to the latter, the study concludes, that
  the reflexivity of the risk is the most profitable for those who are in the high position of the new
  inequality, thus, have the power to determine conflicts generated by them and inflict them on
  those excluded from the struggle of definition of risk.