| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Earthscan risk in society series |
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Earthscan risk in society series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Comparative studies of risk perception: lessons and challenges; 3 Risk perception and social anthropology: the contribution from cultural theory; 4 Situated risk: culture and the management of uncertainty; 5 Risk as organisational practice: a case of railway planning; 6 The public meeting as a theatre of dissent: risk and hazard inenvironmental decision making; 7 Visual images and risk messages: commemorating Chernobyl; 8 Communication on risk: relations, power and rationality; Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Risk perception -- Sociological aspects
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Ethnopsychology.
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Ethnopsychology
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ethnopsychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Ethnopsychology
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Risk -- Sociological aspects
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Risk -- sociologiska aspekter.
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Etnopsykologi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317754619 |
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1317754611 |
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0415745616 |
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9780415745611 |
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9780415745635 |
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0415745632 |
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9781315797793 |
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1315797798 |
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9781317754602 |
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1317754603 |
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9781317754596 |
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131775459X |
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