The risk society and beyond: critical issues for social theory
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London SAGE 2000
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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 and index
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Repositioning Risk; the Challenge for Social Theory; PART I -- RECASTING 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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 232 p.)
ISBN:1446219534
1849202060
9780761964681
9781446219539
9781849202060

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