Risk, uncertainty and rational action:
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword by James F. Short, Jr. 7
Preface 9
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 13
1.1 Risk, Ontological Security, and Uncertainty 13
1.1.1 Risk and the Human Condition 14
1.1.2 Imprimatur for the Age 14
1.1.3 Ontological Security 15
1.2 What is Risk? 16
1.2.1 Defining Risk 17
1.2.2 Analytical Perspectives 19
1.3 The Rational Actor Paradigm (RAP) 20
1.3.1 Rationality as Worldview, General Theory, and Special Theory 22
1.3.2 Durability and Malleability: An Example 25
1.3.3 Rationality in Economics 25
1.3.4 The Larger Sociological Critique of RAP 26
1.3.5 The Macro Micro Link and Markets 28
1.4 Plan of the Book 29
/. THE RATIONAL ACTOR WORLD
2. RAP: THE MONARCH AND HIS SHAKY KINGDOM 35
2.1 Philosophical Underpinnings of RAP 36
2.2 Economics: RAP as a General Theory 41
2.2.1 Trusting the Invisible Hand 41
2.2.2 Adventures of Utility 45
2.3 Inside the Atom: RAP and Psychology 52
2.4 Sociology and RAP: The Fundamental Tension 58
2.4.1 The Macro Micro Link and the Problem of Consciousness 58
2.4.2 RAP Knocks on Sociology s Door 64
3. RISKY DECISIONS OF A SINGLE AGENT 67
3.1 The Monarch and Risk: A Love Hate Relationship 67
3.2 Insurance and Portfolio Investment 68
3.2.1 Investment Decisions and Expected Values 69
3.2.2 Insurance 70
3.2.3 Portfolio Investment 72
4 • CONTENTS
3.3 Decision Analysis 73
3.3.1 Decision Theory and RAP 76
3.3.2 Critiques of Decision Analysis 80
3.4 Quantitative Risk Assessments 85
3.4.1 The Actuarial Approach to Risk 87
3.4.2 Probabilistic Risk Assessment 89
3.4.3 Toxicological and Epidemiological Approaches to Risk 91
3.5 Natural Hazards 95
3.6 Cognitive Psychology 101
3.7 Problems of Policy Making 108
3.7.1 Comparing Risks 109
3.7.2 Establishing Standards of Acceptable Risk 112
4. RISKY DECISIONS OF INTERACTING AGENTS 121
4.1 Risk in the Theory of Games 121
4.1.1 Probabilities in Games 121
4.1.2 The Labor Market as a Game 124
4.1.3 Conceptual Issues 125
4.2 Risk Communication 127
4.2.1 Senders, Transmitters, and Receivers 129
4.2.2 Risk Debates 133
4.3 Risk and Social Movements 136
4.3.1 Resource Mobilization 136
4.3.2 RAP and Resource Mobilization Theory 140
4.4 Organizations and RAP 144
4.4.1 The Rationality of Aggregated Actors 144
4.4.2 The Rap on the RAP Actor 149
//. LOOKING FOR OTHER WORLDS
5. CHALLENGES AND ALTERNATIVES TO RAP
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IN THE STUDY OF RISK 10!f
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5.1 Cooperative Discourse about a Risk Problem
5.2 Risk and Organizations 16^
5.3 The Concept of Social Amplification of Risk 16
5.3.1 The Process of Amplification
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5.3.2 Signal Amplifiers in Social Communication
175
5.4 The Arena Metaphor
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5.4.1 Actors in Policy Arenas
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5.4.2 Resources in Policy Arenas
CONTENTS•5
5.5 Cultural Theory of Risk 183
5.5.1 Acceptable Risk and the Origins of Cultural Analysis 185
5.5.2 Grid/Group Analysis 188
5.5.3 Cultural Biases Clashing: Interference of Risk Cultures 191
5.6 The Social Systems View of Risks 193
5.6.1 Risks and Double Contingency 193
5.6.2 Social Facts as Irreducible Reality 197
5.6.3 Uncertainty and Social Indeterminacy 204
5.6.4 The Challenge of Complexity 206
6. MODERNITY AND BEYOND 209
6.1 Risk and Modernization 209
6.2 Risk and Scientific Rationality 213
6.2.1 Social Functions of Scientific Reasoning 213
6.2.2 The Use of Science in Policy Making 217
6.3 Post Modernism 221
6.4 Fundamentalist Revivals 228
6.5 The Relevance of Critical Theory 231
6.5.1 The Dialectics of Rationalization 232
6.5.2 Communicative Action 236
7. FROM MONOLOGICALTO DIALOGICAL RATIONALITY 243
7.1 The Nature of the Challenge 243
7.1.1 Some Problems with the Idea of Rational Action 243
7.1.2 RAP and Human Choice 247
7.1.3 Labyrinths of Perfection 251
7.1.4 RAP Claims in the Light of Competing Social Theories 255
7.2 Elements of a New Paradigm 258
7.2.1 Scope Conditions 259
7.2.2 Ambivalent Preferences and Expectations 261
7.2.3 Rule Evolution 267
7.2.4 Prices, Investment, and Risk 272
7.2.5 Reflexivity 277
7.3 The Practical Context 281
7.3.1 Implications for Political Behavior 282
7.3.2 Implications for Economic Behavior 285
7.3.3 Social Theory in Historical Context 288
References 297
Index 313
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