03743oam 2200673I 450 991046293990332120200520144314.00-203-07016-X1-135-09032-710.4324/9780203070161 (CKB)2670000000353103(EBL)1183158(OCoLC)842241169(SSID)ssj0000873854(PQKBManifestationID)12282185(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873854(PQKBWorkID)10877773(PQKB)11690681(MiAaPQ)EBC1183158(Au-PeEL)EBL1183158(CaPaEBR)ebr10720766(CaONFJC)MIL485835(OCoLC)860715468(EXLCZ)99267000000035310320180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRisk /Deborah Lupton2nd ed.Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (275 p.)Key ideasKey ideasDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-62254-9 0-415-62253-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; Changes in the meaning of risk; Contemporary concepts of risk; Risk anxieties and late modernity; The aim of this book; 2 Theorizing risk; The technico-scientific perspective; Cognitive psychology; Sociocultural perspectives; Social constructionist positions; Concluding comments; 3 Risk and culture; The importance of culture; Purity, danger and the body; Risk and blame; The grid-group model; Concluding comments; 4 Risk and reflexive modernization; Beck and the 'risk society'; Reflexive modernization; IndividualizationWorld risk society and cosmopolitanismGiddens' perspectives on risk; Risk and trust; Concluding comments; 5 Risk and governmentality; Governmentality; From dangerousness to risk; Contemporary risk strategies; Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism; Concluding comments; 6 Risk and subjectivity; Risk knowledges and reflexivity; Social structures and power relations; Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions; Concluding comments; 7 Risk and Otherness; Conceptualizing Otherness; Embodiment and Otherness; Hybridity and liminality; The psychodynamics of OthernessSpatiality and OthernessConcluding comments; 8 Risk and pleasure; Escape attempts; Edgework; Risk-taking as gendered performances; Desire and transgression; Concluding comments; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEXRisk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the original edition and have since become widely used as a categorisation of risk perspectives.The first draws upon the work of Mary Douglas to articulate the 'cultural/symbolic' perspective on risk. The second approach is that of the 'risk society' perspective, based on the writingsKey IdeasRiskSociological aspectsRisk perceptionSocial aspectsElectronic books.RiskSociological aspects.Risk perceptionSocial aspects.302/.12Lupton Deborah.141847MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462939903321Risk16770UNINA