Risk and society /
What does it mean to live in 'risk society'? How does the idea of risk change how we live with each other? Risk dominates individual and collective consciousness. This book examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE Publications,
2005
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | What does it mean to live in 'risk society'? How does the idea of risk change how we live with each other? Risk dominates individual and collective consciousness. This book examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and providing a guide to the key issues raised. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 220 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848600584 1848600585 9781446216323 1446216322 9786611361938 6611361936 1281361933 9781281361936 |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
