The book by one of the leading researchers of modernity, professor of sociology at the University of Munich, Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), is devoted to a critical examination of the current state of industrial civilization and the bleak prospects that await humanity on the threshold of the next civilizational breakdown. "Risk Society" is a cautionary book that combines accurate diagnosis with an understanding of the inevitability of what is happening. Its main idea: modernization blurs the contours of industrial society, in the depths of which another model of the modern world is born, called by the researcher “risk society.”