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Risk and everyday life /
The authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyd...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (140 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849206563 1849206562 9781446216392 144621639X 1282262653 9781282262652 9786612262654 6612262656 |