Social responsibility: the transformation of research approaches in the context of the “risk society”

Abstract

The notion of social responsibility which is sufficiently detailed elaborate by modern social science is applied nowadays increasingly frequently as long as it is characterize various aspects and spheres of social life. Renewed interest in the concept today is connected with sociologist’s attempts to interpret current social situation - the condition of postmodernity described by uncertainty and risk which are escalated by global economic crisis. Vital need to conceptualize social responsibility under such conditions is appeared in a new context shaped by risk society. Evolution of social responsibility concept from classical - settled in modernity - to perceptions relevant to risk society is traced back in the article