Discovering issues

It is possible to live your entire life without any doubts, but if you learn to question things, issues to address start to appear all around you. In other words, problems are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. You probably begin a long journey towards real research when you detect a mystery or a problem in the mundane, and, conversely, when you see some extraordinary event reflect the regular mechanisms of society. Of course, in your long quest to solve this newly-discovered puzzle you will need proper “tools”.
For instance, I study risks (natural disaster risks, technological risks, etc.) and corresponding issues, which are closely related to the structure of complicated modern society and to changes in the life course and lifestyle of an individual. So I use sophisticated tools of social systems theory and contemporary society theory (such as theory on risk society developed by German scholars) to investigate from a sociological point of view possible countermeasures against the unreliable and risky state of affairs that marks contemporary life. If you too happen to discover some “issue” concealed in the daily life, I invite you to study with me, so that we may devise the strategies necessary to live in this “risk society”.