The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory /
edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon.
Bok Engelsk 2000
| Utgitt | London : : SAGE, , 2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (vii, 232 p.) : : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - '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.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 1-282-02053-6. - 1-4462-1953-4. - 1-4462-2267-5. - 1-84920-206-0. - 9786612020537
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