Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
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| Autore: |
Wilkinson Iain <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.12 |
| Soggetto topico: | Risk - Sociological aspects |
| Anxiety - Sociological aspects | |
| Classificazione: | 71.49 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Towards a sociological conception of the problem of anxiety; Social indicators of anxiety; Coping: from personal style to cultural critique; Anxiety in relation to risk; A speculative age; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society : looks at the problem of contemporary anxiety from a sociological perspective highlights its significance for the ways we make sense of risk and uncertainty argues that the relationship between anxiety and risk hinges on the natur |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anxiety in a risk society |
| ISBN: | 1-134-58859-3 |
| 1-134-58860-7 | |
| 1-280-31785-X | |
| 0-203-46546-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910172246603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Health, risk and society.