The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory /
Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a referenc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
2000.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated wit. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1849202060 9781849202060 9780761964698 076196469X 9781446219539 1446219534 1282020536 9781282020535 9786612020537 6612020539 1446222675 9781446222676 |
Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |