Risk in social science [electronic resource] / [edited by] Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn.
Contributor(s): Taylor-Gooby, Peter | Zinn, Jens | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xiii, 292 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Risk -- Sociological aspects | Risk management -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302/.12 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
The current significance of risk / Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn -- Risk as an interdisciplinary research area / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby -- The challenge of (managing) new risks / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby -- Crime and risk / Hazel Kemshall -- Risk, environment, and technology / Nick Pidgeon, Peter Simmons, and Karen Henwood -- Everyday life, and leisure time / John Tulloch -- Risk and intimate relationships / Jane Lewis and Sophie Sarre -- Health and risk / Andy Alaszewski -- Life course, youth, and old age / Sarah Vickerstaff -- Risk, regulation, and management / Bridget Hutter -- Social inequality and risk / anwen Jones, David Abbott, and Deborah Quilgars -- The media and risk / Emma Hughes, Jenny Kitzinger, and Graham Murdock -- Social and public policy : reflexive individualization and regulatory governance / Peter Taylor-Gooby.
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