LEADER 03249nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910454305503321 005 20191030193359.0 010 $a1-4462-1953-4 010 $a1-4462-2267-5 010 $a1-282-02053-6 010 $a9786612020537 010 $a1-84920-206-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000716265 035 $a(EBL)420891 035 $a(OCoLC)476254315 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200056 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234828 035 $a(PQKB)10540359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC420891 035 $a(OCoLC)1007857915 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084965 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL420891 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10285225 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202053 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000716265 100 $a20120516d2000 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe risk society and beyond$b[electronic resource] $ecritical issues for social theory /$fedited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon 210 $aLondon $cSAGE$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7619-6468-1 311 $a0-7619-6469-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a7 - 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 330 8 $a'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. 606 $aRisk perception 606 $aRisk-taking (Psychology) 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRisk perception. 615 0$aRisk-taking (Psychology) 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 676 $a302/.12 676 $a303.4 701 $aAdam$b Barbara$f1945-$0874639 701 $aBeck$b Ulrich$f1944-2015.$0119835 701 $aLoon$b Joost van$0149162 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454305503321 996 $aThe risk society and beyond$92461023 997 $aUNINA