The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory / edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Adam, Barbara, 1945-

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.

Loon, Joost van.

Conference Name:

Risk, Technologies, Futures Conference (1996 : University of Wales)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk perception--Congresses.

Risk perception.

Risk-taking (Psychology)--Congresses.

Risk-taking (Psychology).

Social sciences--Philosophy--Congresses.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

Summary:

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 arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.

Notes:

" 'Risk, Technologies, Futures' conference held at the University of Wales in Cardiff on 2nd and 3rd of March, 1996..." p. viii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761964681

076196469X

OCLC:

42834211