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- catalog abstract ""This book offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions (for example about nature) as well as public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized. Piet Strydom reconstructs public debates and social scientific theories to provide a fresh approach to the risk society. From this comes a new theoretical perspective for studying the emerging social conditions of the twenty-first century. The result is a penetrating and essential text for students and researchers across a range of areas including sociology, environmental studies, politics, and cultural and communications studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12569423.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This book offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions (for example about nature) as well as public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized. Piet Strydom reconstructs public debates and social scientific theories to provide a fresh approach to the risk society. From this comes a new theoretical perspective for studying the emerging social conditions of the twenty-first century. The result is a penetrating and essential text for students and researchers across a range of areas including sociology, environmental studies, politics, and cultural and communications studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Problems, debates, frameworks and theories. 1. The risk discourse: the contemporary concern with risk. 2. Background theories and frameworks of understanding. 3. Major theoretical directions -- pt. 2. Cultural and institutional analysis. 4. Risk -- what is it? 5. Societal production of risk: society as laboratory. 6. Discursive construction of risk: the new public sphere. 7. Consensus and conflict in the risk society -- pt. 3. Rethinking the risk society. 8. Towards a new critical theory. 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Risk, environment, and society.".
- catalog identifier "0335207839 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0335207847".
- catalog isFormatOf "Risk, environment, and society.".
- catalog isPartOf "Issues in society".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Buckingham [U.K.] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press,".
- catalog relation "Risk, environment, and society.".
- catalog subject "302/.12 21".
- catalog subject "HM1101 .S77 2002".
- catalog subject "Risk Sociological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Risk perception.".
- catalog subject "Risk-taking (Psychology)".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Problems, debates, frameworks and theories. 1. The risk discourse: the contemporary concern with risk. 2. Background theories and frameworks of understanding. 3. Major theoretical directions -- pt. 2. Cultural and institutional analysis. 4. Risk -- what is it? 5. Societal production of risk: society as laboratory. 6. Discursive construction of risk: the new public sphere. 7. Consensus and conflict in the risk society -- pt. 3. Rethinking the risk society. 8. Towards a new critical theory. 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Risk, environment, and society : ongoing debates, current issues, and future prospects / Piet Strydom.".
- catalog type "text".