ISBN:
1849202060
,
9781849202060
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 232 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Risk society and beyond
DDC:
302/.12
Keywords:
Risk-taking (Psychology)
;
Social sciences Philosophy
;
Risk perception
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1996
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1996
Abstract:
Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated wit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Repositioning Risk; the Challenge for Social Theory; PART IRECASTING RISK CULTURE; 1 -- Risk Society or Angst Society?Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community; 2 -- Risk Culture; 3 -- Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of the New Genetics; PART II -- CHALLENGING BIG SCIENCE; 4 -- Nuclear Risks: Three Problematics; 5 -- Genotechnology: Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation; 6 -- Health and Responsibility: From SocialChange to Technological Change and Vice Versa; PART III -- MEDIATING TECHNOLOGIES OF RISK
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/the-risk-society-and-beyond
