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We have seen the good effects of Western modernization with the rise of technological advances and strong economic growth because of capitalism. But we do not notice behind this modernization is the possibility of a self-destruction of the industrial society which Beck terms as reflexive modernization. Beck characterizes our modern society as the risk society wherein certain features of the industrial society becomes problematic. Unlike our notion of the industrial society which is based on certainty, contemporary society revolves around uncertainty. The threats, individual risks and danger are continuously increasing that they affect not only in a particular time and space. In this risk society, it is no longer the distribution of “goods” but the distrib