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Risk in social science / [edited by] Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn

Taylor-Gooby, Peter ; Zinn, Jens

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

xiii, 292 p. S. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Contents; Notes on the Contributors; 1. The Current Significance of Risk; 2. Risk as an Interdisciplinary Research Area; 3. The Challenge of (Managing) New Risks; 4. Crime and Risk; 5. Risk, Environment, and Technology; 6. Everyday Life and Leisure Time; 7. Risk and Intimate Relationships; 8. Health and Risk; 9. Life Course, Youth, and Old Age; 10. Risk, Regulation, and Management; 11. Social Inequality and Risk; 12. The Media and Risk; 13. Social and Public Policy: Reflexive Individualization and Regulatory Governance; Index

reflexive individualization and regulatory governance / Peter Taylor-Gooby

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Risk in Social Science

0-19-928595-0 ; 0-19-928596-9 ; 978-0-19-928595-2 ; 978-0-19-928596-9

978-0-19-928596-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HM1101

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LOC-SH: Risk management -- Social aspects ; Risk -- Sociological aspects ; Risk -- Sociological aspects ; Risk management -- Social aspects

Risk ; Sociological aspects ; Risk management ; Social aspects ; Electronic books

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful for those studying political science, government, public policy, and economics. It is written by leading experts actively involved in research in the field