The risk society and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : critical issues for social theory / / edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon
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The risk society and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : critical issues for social theory / / edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.12 |
| 303.4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Risk perception |
| Risk-taking (Psychology) | |
| Social sciences - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AdamBarbara <1945->
BeckUlrich <1944-2015.>
LoonJoost van
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| 7 - 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | '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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The risk society and beyond |
| ISBN: | 1-4462-1953-4 |
| 1-4462-2267-5 | |
| 1-282-02053-6 | |
| 9786612020537 | |
| 1-84920-206-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454305503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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