Risk and everyday life:
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Main Author: Tulloch, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Sage Publications 2003
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-136) and index
Introduction: Researching Risk and Everyday Life -- - Defining Risk -- - Risk and Border Crossings -- - Individualization, Risk Modernity and Biography: The Cse of Work -- - Plural Rationalities: From Blitz to Contemporary Crime -- - Perceptions of Time and Place in a 'Risk Modern' City
The authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (140 p.)
ISBN:0761947590
1849206562
9780761947592
9781849206563

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