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Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
Autore Wilkinson Iain <1969, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (176 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
302/.12
Collana Health, risk and society
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Anxiety - Sociological aspects
ISBN 1-134-58859-3
1-134-58860-7
1-280-31785-X
0-203-46546-6
Classificazione 71.49
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910172246603321
Wilkinson Iain <1969, >  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
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Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
Anxiety in a risk society / / Iain Wilkinson
Autore Wilkinson Iain <1969, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (176 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
302/.12
Collana Health, risk and society
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Anxiety - Sociological aspects
ISBN 1-134-58859-3
1-134-58860-7
1-280-31785-X
0-203-46546-6
Classificazione 71.49
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNISA-996218281303316
Wilkinson Iain <1969, >  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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Beyond the risk society [[electronic resource] ] : critical reflections on risk and human security / / [edited by] Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate
Beyond the risk society [[electronic resource] ] : critical reflections on risk and human security / / [edited by] Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate
Pubbl/distr/stampa Maidenhead, England, : Open University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
Altri autori (Persone) MythenGabe
WalklateSandra
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk perception
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-281-12959-3
9786611129590
0-335-23008-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front cover; Half title; Title; Copy right; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Thinking beyond the risk society; PART I Setting the risk agenda; Chapter 1 Sociology and risk; Chapter 2 Psychology and risk; Chapter 3 Criminology and risk; Chapter 4 Social policy and risk; PART II Embracing the risk agenda; Chapter 5 Health and risk; Chapter 6 Sexuality and risk; Chapter 7 Media and risk; Chapter 8 Environment and risk; PART III Putting risk in its place; Chapter 9 Politics and risk; Chapter 10 Work and risk; Chapter 11 Economics and risk
Chapter 12 Culture and riskChapter 13 Conclusion Towards a holistic approach to risk and human security; Index; Back cover
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451080703321
Maidenhead, England, : Open University Press, 2006
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Covid-19 and the sociology of risk and uncertainty : studies of social phenomena and social theory across 6 continents / / edited by Patrick R. Brown and Jens O. Zinn
Covid-19 and the sociology of risk and uncertainty : studies of social phenomena and social theory across 6 continents / / edited by Patrick R. Brown and Jens O. Zinn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (336 pages)
Disciplina 302.12
Collana Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Ser.
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN 3-030-95167-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: COVID-19 Risks: Dynamics of Culture and Inequality Across Six Continents -- Background and Aims -- Insights from the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty -- Key Issues Explored in This Book -- Overview of Contributions -- Part I: Governing COVID-19 -- Part II: Communicating and Interpreting COVID-19 Risk -- Part III: Pandemic Risk-Emerging Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- References -- Part I: Governing COVID-19 -- 2: Responding to Covid-19 in India: Reducing Risk or Increasing Domination? -- Introduction -- Freedom as Non-domination -- A Neo-Republican Outlook on Risk-Containment Measures -- India's Lockdown 2020: A Case Study -- A Problem of Domination -- Conclusions -- References -- 3: Discourses Around Telework in the Brazilian Banking Sector: The Impact of COVID-19 in Shifting Framings of Vulnerability and Risk -- Introduction -- COVID-19 and Work in Brazil: (Re)organising Work, Risks and Vulnerabilities -- Telework and COVID-19: Risk Objects or Objects at Risk? -- Methodological and Analytical Approaches -- The Future of Work (?) -- Banks and Telework Before COVID-19 -- Banks and Telework After COVID-19 -- Unions and Telework Before COVID-19 -- Unions and Telework After COVID-19 -- Reframing Risk Relationships: COVID-19 as a Common Risk Object for Banks and Trade Unions -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Social, Health, and Environmental Impacts of the Mandatory Lockdown in Underprivileged Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires -- Introduction -- The Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires: Environmental and Health Inequalities -- Risks, Social Determinants of Health, and Ecofeminist Perspectives to Reflect on the Impacts of the Pandemic -- The Spread of COVID-19 in the AMBA: Old or New Inequalities?.
The Problem of Informal Work and the Need for Food: State Economic Help and Community Organisation -- The Healthcare Problem: The Pandemic Amidst Health Vulnerability and Environmental Risk -- Overcrowding and Deficit in the Access to Water: The Role of Women as Managers of the Environment -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: True to Type? How Governance Traditions Shaped Responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK, and USA -- China -- Germany -- UK -- USA -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Communicating and Interpreting COVID-19 Risk -- 6: Everyday Life During COVID-19 in Stockholm: A Biographical Approach -- Introduction -- Researching Everyday Life During COVID-19 in Sweden -- Risk and Everyday Life: A Biographical Approach -- Three Narratives of (Urban) Everyday Life During COVID-19 -- Glenn: 'I Was Quite Surprised That This Happened' -- Anna: 'I Never Imagined That This Is Something That Could Affect Me at Home' -- Emil: 'It Might Just As Well Go Straight to Hell' -- Everyday Life During COVID-19 and Biographical Uncertainty -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Uncertainty, Fear and Control During COVID-19 … or … Making a Safe Boat to Survive Rough Seas: The Lived Experience of Women in South Australia During Early COVID-19 Lockdowns -- Introduction -- Research Context -- Methods and Analysis -- Findings and Discussion -- Uncertainty and Fear During COVID-19: The Rough, Dark and Unyielding Sea -- Control and Uncertainty: Constructing and Maintaining a Safe Boat Through COVID-19 Lockdowns -- Looking for Normalcy: A Known, Steady Boat -- Controlling What I Can: Pleasure Seeking in a Restricted World -- A Lockdown-Enforced 'Holiday'… Taking Opportunities and Enjoying Life Whilst on the Boat -- COVID-19 Candidacy … The Boat Is Safe and Healthy, so Unlikely to Sink … -- Uncertainty … the Noun to Explain Our COVID-19 Existence.
Concluding Comments -- References -- 8: COVID-19 in Argentina: Risks, Media, and Fears in Confinement Times -- Introduction -- The Context of the Research: COVID-19 in Argentina -- Methodology -- Theoretical Framework -- Results -- About the Consumption of News -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Living the Modern Dream: Risk Quantification and Modeling During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chile -- Introduction -- The Modern Dream: Quantification and Modeling in Times of COVID-19 -- The COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile: Data Controversies and Localized Lockdowns -- A Note on Methods -- The Chilean Experience: Living the Modern Dream? -- The Modern Dream Survives -- Wrong but Useful -- Useful but Mostly Unused -- Understandings of the Limitations of Risk Communication Using Models -- Models Are Not Everything -- The Black Box Is Open -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Pandemic Risk: Emerging Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 10: COVID-19, World Risk Society, and the Transformation of the State -- Introduction -- Beck on the Globality of Risks -- Beck on the Inability of 'New Risks' to Be Managed by Insurance and the State -- Evaluating the Post-national and Post-insurance Theses -- Risk Society: A New Capitalism and a New State -- Conclusion -- References -- 11: COVID-19 and the Environmental Crises: Knowledge, Social Order and Transformative Change -- Introduction -- Context and Phenomena -- Theoretical-Conceptual Approach -- The Interrelated Crises of COVID-19 and the Environment -- Current Framing of the Crises of COVID-19 and the Environment -- Temporal Framing -- Spatial Character -- Institutionalized Expertise -- Handling Symptoms or Treating Causes? -- Focusing on Symptoms -- Avoiding/Obscuring Structural Change -- Separating Interrelated Crises -- Conclusion: What Can Be Learned from the Crises?.
Learning from the Environmental Crisis -- Learning from the Pandemic -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 12: The Ethics of Risk Research in the Time of COVID-19: Ethnography at a Distance in Privileging the Well-Being of Girls and Young Women in the Context of Gender-Based Violence in Rural South Africa -- Introduction and Overview of the Broad Issues -- Section 1: Ethnography as a Distance -- Section 2: At a Distance: Loskop in the Time of COVID-19 -- From a Distance -- Section 3: Towards an Inventory of 'Ethnography at a Distance' Tools and Methods for Minimizing Risk in the Pandemic Research -- Extending the Decision Tree -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910574086103321
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Materiale a stampa
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Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (330 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
Altri autori (Persone) BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959->
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance)
Responsibility
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-226-03517-4
9786612537387
1-282-53738-5
Classificazione MB 3250
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910455566503321
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
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Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (330 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
Altri autori (Persone) BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959->
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance)
Responsibility
Soggetto non controllato culture, cultural, insurance, responsibility, insurer, 20th century, industrial, industrialized, social, problems, welfare, worker, labor, laborer, workplace, workforce, risk, risky, compensation, claims, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, economics, finance, contextual, institutional, mental health, wellness, safety, law, england, britain
ISBN 0-226-03517-4
9786612537387
1-282-53738-5
Classificazione MB 3250
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780994503321
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
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Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Embracing risk [[electronic resource] ] : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / / edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (330 p.)
Disciplina 302.12
Altri autori (Persone) BakerTom <1959->
SimonJonathan <1959->
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk (Insurance)
Responsibility
Soggetto non controllato culture, cultural, insurance, responsibility, insurer, 20th century, industrial, industrialized, social, problems, welfare, worker, labor, laborer, workplace, workforce, risk, risky, compensation, claims, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, economics, finance, contextual, institutional, mental health, wellness, safety, law, england, britain
ISBN 0-226-03517-4
9786612537387
1-282-53738-5
Classificazione MB 3250
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Embracing Risk -- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- 9. At Risk of Madness -- 10. The Policing of Risk -- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910806281503321
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
Materiale a stampa
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L'incertezza quotidiana : politica, lavoro, relazioni nella società del rischio / / a cura di Marita Rampazi [[electronic resource]]
L'incertezza quotidiana : politica, lavoro, relazioni nella società del rischio / / a cura di Marita Rampazi [[electronic resource]]
Edizione [1. ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Milano, : Guerini studio, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (254 p. ) : ill. ;
Disciplina 306
Altri autori (Persone) RampaziMarita
Collana Sociologia della vita quotidiana
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
ISBN 88-8335-333-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ita
Altri titoli varianti Incertezza quotidiana
L'incertezza quotidiana : politica, lavoro, relazioni nella società del rischio
L'incertezza quotidiana
Record Nr. UNINA-9910146195203321
Milano, : Guerini studio, 2002
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Innovative thinking in risk, crisis, and disaster management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simon Bennett
Innovative thinking in risk, crisis, and disaster management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simon Bennett
Pubbl/distr/stampa Farnham [England] ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Gower, c2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina 363.1
Altri autori (Persone) BennettSimon <1958->
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk assessment
Emergency management
Crisis management
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-317-11629-1
1-317-11628-3
1-280-57109-8
9786613600691
1-4094-1195-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Empowering Emergency Responders; 2 Terrorism and the Risk Society; 5 Risk as Workers' Remembered Utility in the Late-Modern Economy; 6 Aviation and Corporate Social Responsibility; 7 Investigating Resilience, Through 'Before and After' Perspectives on Residual Risk; 8 Managing Risks in a Climatically Dynamic Environment; 9 A Future for Late-Modern Social Formations in Detroit?; 10 Conclusion; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910462099103321
Farnham [England] ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Gower, c2012
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Innovative thinking in risk, crisis, and disaster management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simon Bennett
Innovative thinking in risk, crisis, and disaster management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simon Bennett
Pubbl/distr/stampa Farnham [England] ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Gower, c2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina 363.1
Altri autori (Persone) BennettSimon <1958->
Soggetto topico Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk assessment
Emergency management
Crisis management
ISBN 1-315-58868-4
1-317-11629-1
1-317-11628-3
1-280-57109-8
9786613600691
1-4094-1195-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Empowering Emergency Responders; 2 Terrorism and the Risk Society; 5 Risk as Workers' Remembered Utility in the Late-Modern Economy; 6 Aviation and Corporate Social Responsibility; 7 Investigating Resilience, Through 'Before and After' Perspectives on Residual Risk; 8 Managing Risks in a Climatically Dynamic Environment; 9 A Future for Late-Modern Social Formations in Detroit?; 10 Conclusion; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789950703321
Farnham [England] ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Gower, c2012
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