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Beschreibung
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.
In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.
In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.
Über den Autor
Professor Mary Douglas
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction, Part I Risk and blame, Part II Wants and institutions, Part III Believing and thinking, Name index, Subject index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Fachbereich: Kommunikationswissenschaften
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780415119993
ISBN-10: 0415119995
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Douglas, Mary
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Douglas
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.1994
Gewicht: 0,475 kg
Artikel-ID: 125768093

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