03249nam 2200697 a 450 991045430550332120191030193359.01-4462-1953-41-4462-2267-51-282-02053-697866120205371-84920-206-0(CKB)1000000000716265(EBL)420891(OCoLC)476254315(SSID)ssj0000238667(PQKBManifestationID)11200056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238667(PQKBWorkID)10234828(PQKB)10540359(MiAaPQ)EBC420891(OCoLC)1007857915(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084965(Au-PeEL)EBL420891(CaPaEBR)ebr10285225(CaONFJC)MIL202053(EXLCZ)99100000000071626520120516d2000 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe risk society and beyond[electronic resource] critical issues for social theory /edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van LoonLondon SAGE20001 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7619-6468-1 0-7619-6469-X 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 RISK7 - Child Organ Stealing Stories: Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies8 - Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture; 9 - Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction; PART IV - P(L)AYING FOR FUTURES; 10 - Worlds in Action: Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading; 11 - Discourses of Risk and Utopia; 12 - Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes; Index'The risk society and beyond' traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck's ideas as expressed in 'Risk Society' (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.Risk perceptionRisk-taking (Psychology)Social sciencesPhilosophyElectronic books.Risk perception.Risk-taking (Psychology)Social sciencesPhilosophy.302/.12303.4Adam Barbara1945-874639Beck Ulrich1944-2015.119835Loon Joost van149162StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910454305503321The risk society and beyond2461023UNINA