The DOI matches its Crossref record; 21 of the 21 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology of the second age of modernity*
Abstract
‘Second age of modernity’ is a magical password that is meant to open the doors to new conceptual landscapes. The whole world of nation sovereignty is fading away – including the ‘container theory of society’ on which most of the sociology of the first age of modernity is based upon. In this article I propose a distinction between ‘simple globalization’ and ‘reflexive cosmopolitization’. In the paradigm of the first age of modernity, simple globalization is interpreted within the territorial compass of state and politics, society and culture. This involves an additive, not substitutive, conception of globalization as indicated for example by ‘interconnectedness’. In the paradigm of the second age of modernity globalization changes not only the relations between and beyond national states and societies, but also the inner quality of the social and political itself which is indicated by more or less reflexive cosmopolitization as an institutionalized learning process – and its enemies.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
World Society and the Nation‐State
Meyer, J. W., Boli, J., Thomas, G. M., & Ramirez, F. O. (1997) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/231174 · Cited by 4,684
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Appadurai, A. (1990) · Public Culture · doi:10.1215/08992363-2-2-1 · Cited by 3,938
Castells, M. (2009) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781444318234 · Cited by 3,228
New and old wars: organized violence in a global era
(1999) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.36-6532 · Cited by 2,096
Cosmopolitics : thinking and feeling beyond the nation
Cheah, P., & Robbins, B. W. (1998) · Cited by 1,941
Illouz, E., Beck, U., & Beck-Gernsheim, E. (1997) · Contemporary Sociology · doi:10.2307/2076615 · Cited by 1,074
Self-citationPolitiques de la nature: Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie
Latour, B. (2004) · La Découverte eBooks · doi:10.3917/dec.latou.2004.02 · Cited by 1,034
Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk
Burningham, K., & Beck, U. (1997) · The British Journal of Sociology · doi:10.2307/591915 · Cited by 972
Self-citation(1998) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822378426 · Cited by 834
Winters, C. A. (2000) · Journal of Economic Issues · doi:10.1080/00213624.2000.11506262 · Cited by 824
Cited by
Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences
Wimmer, A., & Glick Schiller, N. (2002) · Global Networks · doi:10.1111/1471-0374.00043 · Cited by 3,754
Wimmer, A., & Schiller, N. G. (2003) · International Migration Review · doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00151.x · Cited by 1,629
Brubaker, R. (2005) · Ethnic and Racial Studies · doi:10.1080/0141987042000289997 · Cited by 1,344
Bhambra, G. K. (2014) · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · doi:10.5040/9781472544377 · Cited by 667
Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory
Levy, D., & Sznaider, N. (2002) · European Journal of Social Theory · doi:10.1177/1368431002005001002 · Cited by 461
Metadata
- Authors
- Beck, U.
- Venue
- The British Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 79-105
- ISSN
- 0007-1315 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4446
- OpenAlex
- W2156439389
- Cited by
- 640
- References
- 21
- FWCI
- 48.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology of the second age of modernity*. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00079.x
- The paper
- Beck, U. (2000). The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology of the second age of modernity*. The British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00079.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
