The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social TheoryBarbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, Joost Van Loon SAGE, 27/07/2000 - 232 páginas Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arg |
Índice
Recasting Risk Culture | 33 |
Risk Culture | 47 |
Risk Trust and Scepticism in the Age of the New Genetics | 63 |
Challenging Big Science | 78 |
Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation | 105 |
From Social Change | 122 |
Mediating Technologies of Risk | 136 |
Biotechnology and Culture | 155 |
Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction | 165 |
Paying for Futures | 183 |
Discourses of Risk and Utopia | 198 |
Theory Politics and Research Programmes | 211 |
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