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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808696903321

Autore

Burzyński Jan

Titolo

Taming risk : uncertainty, trust and the sociological discourse of modernity / / by Jan Burzyński and Tomasz Burzyński

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5608-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

302.12

Soggetti

Risk - Sociological aspects

Society

Social sciences - Philosophy

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the un...