Barbara Adam: The Risk Society and Beyond

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Beschreibung

Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought.

Über den Autor

Barbara Adam is a reader in Social Theory, School of Social and Admin. Studies, University of Wales, Ulrich Beck is professor and Director at the Institute of Sociology, University of Muncih and Joost Van Loon is Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Department of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University.

CONTRIBUTORS AFFILIATIONS:

Stuart Allan University of the West of England, Bristol

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany

Deirdre Boden Copenhagen Business School

Claudia Castaneda Lancaster University

Howard Caybill Goldsmiths College, London

Peter Glasner University of the West of England, Bristol

Alan Irwin Brunel University

Scott Lash Goldsmiths College, London

Ruth Levitas University of Bristol

Ruth McNally Brunel University

Lindsay Prior University of Wales, Cardiff

Alan Scott University of East Anglia, Norwich

Joost van Loon Nottingham Trent University

Ian Welsh University of Wales, Cardiff

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Barbara Adam and Joost van Loon
Repositioning Risk: The Challenge for Social Theory
PART ONE: RECASTING RISK CULTURE
Risk or Angst Society? - Alan Scott
Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community
Risk Culture - Scott Lash
Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New Genetics - Hilary Rose
PART TWO: CHALLENGING BIG SCIENCE
Nuclear Risks - Alan Irwin, Stuart Allan and Ian Welsh
Three Problematics
Genotechnology - Lindsay Prior, Peter Glasner and Ruth McNally
Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation
Health and Responsibility - Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
From Social Change to Technological Change and Vice Versa
PART THREE: MEDIATING TECHNOLOGIES OF RISK
Child Organ Stealing Stories - Claudia Castaneda
Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies
Liturgies of Fear - Howard Caygill
Biotechnology and Culture
Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction - Joost van Loon
PART FOUR: P(L)AYING FOR FUTURES
Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading - Deirdre Boden
Discourses of Risk and Utopia - Ruth Levitas
Risk Society Revisited - Ulrich Beck
Theory, Politics and Research Programmes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780761964698
ISBN-10:	076196469X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Adam Loon, Joost van
Redaktion:	Adam, Barbara Beck, Ulrich Loon, Joost van
Hersteller:	Sage Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Barbara Adam (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.05.2000
Gewicht:	0,377 kg