Factors of Actualization of Risk Study in Modern Sociology: Theoretical Backgrounds and Socio-cultural Manifestations

Abstract

An attempt of systematic analysis of risk actualizing factors in the contemporary sociological research is presented in the article. Two groups of factors, highlighted by the author, describe the main tendencies of reconstruction of contemporary sociological knowledge, as well as sociocultural features of contemporary post-Soviet societies. Basing on experience of studying risk-fenomena by foreign and national researchers, the author notes the nonrandom character of the theory of risk society actualiztion in contemporary sociological knowledge. Also the author stresses the prospects of studying of risk-fenomena as a way of exit from the current methodological crisis of contemporary sociology. The attemp to review general positions of the risk society theory in U.Beck′s interpretation is provided in the article. The actuality of using of such category as risk-strategy in the framework of sociological discourse is highlighted.