Risk and Blame

Essays in Cultural Theory
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-12661-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.
In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas, Mary

Douglas, Professor Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Part I Risk and blame, Part II Wants and institutions, Part III Believing and thinking, Name index, Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Mary Douglas