ISBN:
9780511520778
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (ix, 191 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302/.12
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
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Risk / Sociological aspects
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Risk perception / Social aspects
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Soziales System
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Konfliktbewältigung
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Risiko
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Soziologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Risiko
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Konfliktbewältigung
;
Soziales System
;
Risiko
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations, and is central to the work of writers such as Douglas, Beck, Giddens and the Foucauldian theorists. The contributors are all leading scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural and media studies and cultural anthropology. Combining empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques, they tackle an unusually diverse range of topics including drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, anxieties about national identity, the governmental uses of risk and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : risk and sociocultural theory / Deborah Lupton -- Postmodern reflections on 'risk', 'hazards' and life choices / Nick Fox -- Fear of crime and the media : sociocultural theories of risk / John Tulloch -- Risk and the ontology of pregnant embodiment / Deborah Lupton -- Risk anxiety and the social construction of childhood / Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott -- Constructing an endangered nation : risk, race and rationality in Australia's native title debate / Eva Mackey -- Risk, calculable and incalculable / Mitchell Dean -- Ordering risks / Stephen Crook
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511520778
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520778
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