The risk society and beyond :
Published by : SAGE, (London ; | Thousand Oaks, Calif. :) Physical details: vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN:0761964681; 9780761964681; 076196469X; 9780761964698.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 302.12 ADA (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA041294 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Repositioning risk : the challenge for social theory / Barbara Adam and Joost van Loon -- Risk society or angst society? Two views of risk, consciousness and community / Alan Scott -- Risk culture / Scott Lash -- Risk, trust and scepticism in the age of the new genetics / Hilary Rose -- Nuclear risks : three problematics / Alan Irwin, Stuart Allen and Ian Welsh -- Genotechnology : three challenges to risk legitimation / Lindsay Prior, Peter Glasner and Ruth McNally -- Health and responsibility : from social change to tecnological change and vice versa / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Child organ stealing stories : risk, rumour and reproductive technologies / Claudia Casta�neda -- Liturgies of fear : biotechnology and culture / Howard Caygill -- Virtual risks in an age of cybernetic reproduction / Joost van Loon -- Worlds in action : information, instantaneity and global futures trading / Deirdre Boden -- Discourses of risk and utopia / Ruth Levitas -- Risk society revisited : theory, politics and research programmes / Ulrich Beck.
"Ulrich Beck's Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centring on environmental, health and personal risk. It provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and became a reference point for state and local policies in risk management." "The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas, traces their evolution and demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate throughout social theory." "Covering new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic, The Risk Society and Beyond is unique because it offers the reader both an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works by Beck. This book also includes a reply to his critics from Beck himself."--Jacket.
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