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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ISBN:

9781849202060

9780761964698

9781446219539

9781282020535

Title:

The risk society and beyond [electronic resource] : critical issues for social theory / edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon.

Author:

Adam, Barbara, 1945-

Publication Information:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

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.

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Subject Term:

Risk perception.

Risk-taking (Psychology)

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Adam, Barbara, 1945-

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.

Loon, Joost van.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2000

Publication Information:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

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Ulrich Beck′s best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck′s ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.

IntroductionBarbara Adam and Joost van Loon

Repositioning Risk: The Challenge for Social Theory

Part 1 Recasting Risk Culture

Risk or Angst Society?Alan Scott

Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community

Risk CultureScott Lash

Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New GeneticsHilary Rose

Part 2 Challenging Big Science

Nuclear RisksAlan Irwin and Stuart Allan and Ian Welsh

Three Problematics

GenotechnologyLindsay Prior and Peter Glasner and Ruth McNally

Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation

Health and ResponsibilityElisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

From Social Change to Technological Change and Vice Versa

Part 3 Mediating Technologies of Risk

Child Organ Stealing StoriesClaudia Castaneda

Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies

Liturgies of FearHoward Caygill

Biotechnology and Culture

Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic ReproductionJoost van Loon

Part 4 P(L)Aying For Futures

Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures TradingDeirdre Boden

Discourses of Risk and UtopiaRuth Levitas

Risk Society RevisitedUlrich Beck

Theory, Politics and Research Programmes

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