The Risk society is a society in which ontological security is threatened doubly: First, insofar as, in modern life, pervasive exposure to risks threaten our sense of the continuity and stability of our lives... and, second, in that in modern societies the social networks of human life have been eroded.
The Risk society is a society where we increasingly live on a high technological frontier which absolutely no one completely understands and which generates a diversity of possible futures.
The Risk society is a new stage of modernity that 'frees itself from the contours of the industrial society.
Risk society is a new social form not merely as a society which is preoccupied with risk avoidance and control, but as one which 'increasingly governs its problems in terms of discourses and technologies of risk.
The Risk society is a society in which the unintended consequences of the hidden (yet pervasive) hazards of overproduction have become a dominant force.
The Risk society is a knowledge society because scientific knowledge and technologies are sources of major risks and the primary basis of security efforts aimed at controlling such risks.