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  title info:
    title: Social theories of risk and uncertainty
    sub title: an introduction
  name:
    name part: Zinn, Jens
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Malden, MA
    publisher: Blackwell Pub.
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages.)
  abstract: Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk and identifies why theorizing on risk is necessary and highlights specific sociological contributions to this field of research. Explores key topics including risk society and reflexive modernization, culture and risk, governmentality and risk, systems theory and risk, and edgework and voluntary risk taking.
  table of contents: Introduction : the contribution of sociology to the discourse on risk and uncertainty / Jens O. Zinn -- Risk society and reflexive modernization / Jens O. Zinn -- Governmentality and risk / Pat O'Malley -- Systems theory and risk / Klaus-Peter Japp and Isabel Kusche -- Edgework, risk, and uncertainty / Stephen Lyng -- Culture and risk / John Tulloch -- A comparison of sociological theorizing on risk and uncertainty / Jens O. Zinn.
  note: edited by Jens O. Zinn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Risk
    topic: Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Risk perception
  subject:
    topic: Risk
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Uncertainty
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: HM1101 .S64 2008
  classification: 302/.12
  classification: 71.02
  classification: MS 1280
  classification: MS 1180
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    title info:
      title: Social theories of risk and uncertainty
    origin info:
      publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008
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    identifier: (DLC) 2007040796
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    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260209
    record change date: 20260215001451.7
    record identifier: in00005690863
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng