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The concept of risk holds a special place in current sociological debates on environmental issues and the direction of social change. Beck’s risk thesis is useful, because it provides part of an explanation for why environmental movement concerns have found such a receptive audience. Once people become sensitized to risks, the arguments of environmentalists begin to make more sense. Beck’s Risk Society has taken sociological thinking on modernity and its possible futures in a new and highly original direction, making us rethink the sociological tradition, and for this reason it has rightly become a modern classic of social theory.