What is Ulrich Beck?
[[File:Beck-St-Gallen-Symposium.png|thumb|Beck in May 2012.]] '''Ulrich Beck''' (15 May 1944 &ndash; 1 January 2015) was a [[Germans|German]] [[sociologist]] and [[educator]]. He made the term [[risk society]] out of [[globalization]]. And made studies on democratic and [[cosmopolitan]] society. He was also a professor of [[sociology]] at the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich|University of Munich]] and at the [[London School of Economics]]. Beck was born in the [[Pomerania]]n town of Stolp (now [[Słupsk]] in [[Poland]]). He got his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1972. He was married to [[Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim]]. Beck died from a [[heart attack]] on 1 January 2015, aged 70.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/soziologie-ulrich-beck-gestorben-13351173.html|title=Autor der Risikogesellschaft Ulrich Beck gestorben|language=German|publisher=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]|date=3 January 2015|accessdate=4 January 2015}}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[List of sociologists from Europe]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{Official|http://www.ulrichbeck.net-build.net/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beck, Ulrich}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:German scientists]] [[Category:German sociologists]] [[Category:Academics of the University of London]] [[Category:Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty]] {{Bio-stub}}