Taming risk : uncertainty, trust and the sociological discourse of modernity / by Jan Burzyński and Tomasz Burzyński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burzyński, Jan, author.

Burzyński, Tomasz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk--Sociological aspects.

Risk.

Society.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the un...

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 31, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5608-8

OCLC:

875097251