Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ADAM AKADEMİ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.487-519, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
This article aims to review the condition of social challenges we encounter today inthe context of risk society. The methodology of this research is based on qualitativeresearch in which the document analysis technique was used for data collectionand the meta-synthesis method was used to analyze the data. The main data sourceis the master and doctoral dissertations published on the website of the council ofhigher education in Turkey. The criteria for choosing documents is that there shouldbe a plague and risk society keyword in their title. In conclusion, the risk is stillpresent and in all communities. Yet they are also the root of the challenge posedby society. Today the research, negligence, and actions that people generally arenow yielding the risks. In the past, ignorance was a risky place for humans, but nowit is based on information, complete control over existence, laws, and boundaries.To summarize, there are significant differences between the present outbreak andprevious pandemics. The cultural and technical change produces these significantdifferences. While the dissemination of historical outbreaks has been mostly confined to small locations where the virus occurs, in the post-modern era, the consequences of outbreaks are strong in the sense of Risk Society. However, an importantfactor that is ignored or put on the second plan is the social-psychological effect ofthe outbreak. In this regard reviewing the pandemic in the context of Risk Societygains importance. It should be noted that education is a key instrument for awareness about this issue as well as reflecting the concept sociologically and philosophically give us more insights about this issue.