Global Hazards of Reflexive Modernity. An Ethological Perspective

Exploding development of knowledge and the more and more extended market have required and accompanied the transition from industrial society, of simple modernity, characterized by redistribution of wealth, to postmodern society, of reflexive modernity, characterized by the redistribution of risk. Risk society is facing many dangers, both at individual and organizational top level, threats from new social and organizational activities. Regardless of the perspective from which these hazards are identified and analyzed, the approach, based in particular on the radiography of society from the ethological perspective of Konrad Lorenz, is to contribute to the difficult process of collective awareness of these issues - prerequisite for shaping initiatives, programs and ways of their solution.