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9780761964681

The Risk Society and Beyond; Critical Issues for Social Theory

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    9780761964681

  • ISBN10:

    0761964681

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-07-27
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vi
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Repositioning Risk; the Challenge for Social Theory 1(32)
Barbara Adam
Joost Van Loon
PART I Recasting Risk Culture
Risk Society or Angst Society? Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community
33(14)
Alan Scott
Risk Culture
47(16)
Scott Lash
Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of the New Genetics
63(15)
Hilary Rose
PART II Challenging Big Science
Nuclear Risks: Three Problematics
78(27)
Alan Irwin
Stuart Allan
Ian Welsh
Genotechnology: Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation
105(17)
Lindsay Prior
Peter Glasner
Ruth McNally
Health and Responsibility: From Social Change to Technological Change and Vice Versa
122(14)
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
PART III Mediating Technologies of Risk
Child Organ Stealing Stories: Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies
136(19)
Claudia Castaneda
Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture
155(10)
Howard Caygill
Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction
165(18)
Joost van Loon
PART IV P(I)aying for Futures
Worlds in Action: Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading
183(15)
Deirdre Boden
Discourses of Risk and Utopia
198(13)
Ruth Levitas
Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes
211(19)
Ulrich Beck
Index 230

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