Taming Risk : Uncertainty, Trust and the Sociological Discourse of Modernity.
This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the un ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781443856089 1443856088 1443853178 9781443853170 |