Risk in social science:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The current significance of risk / Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn -- Risk as an interdisciplinary research area / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby -- The challenge of (managing) new risks / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby -- Crime and risk / Hazel Kemshall -- Risk, environment, and technology / Nick Pidgeon, Peter Simmons, and Karen Henwood -- Everyday life, and leisure time / John Tulloch -- Risk and intimate relationships / Jane Lewis and Sophie Sarre -- Health and risk / Andy Alaszewski -- Life course, youth, and old age / Sarah Vickerstaff -- Risk, regulation, and management / Bridget Hutter -- Social inequality and risk / anwen Jones, David Abbott, and Deborah Quilgars -- The media and risk / Emma Hughes, Jenny Kitzinger, and Graham Murdock -- Social and public policy : reflexive individualization and regulatory governance / Peter Taylor-Gooby
Intended for students and scholars from the social sciences, this is an introduction to work on risk. It discusses the basic issues in risk research, and examines some of the key themes in this field, looking at topics such as the media, crime, the environment, and social inequality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 292 p.)
ISBN:0191536636
0199285950
0199285969
9780191536632
9780199285952
9780199285969

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