Risk and Everyday Life
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Risk and Everyday Life

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Risk and Everyday Life

About this book

Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.

Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, 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.

Drawing on the work of key theorists - Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, and Mary Douglas - the authors examine and critique theories of risk in the light of their own research and presents case studies which show how notions of risk interact with day-to-day concerns.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 Introduction: Researching Risk and Everyday Life
  7. 2 Defining Risk
  8. 3 Risk and Border Crossings
  9. 4 Individualization, Risk Modernity and Biography: The Case of Work
  10. 5 Plural Rationalities: From Blitz to Contemporary Crime
  11. 6 Perceptions of Time and Place in a ‘Risk Modern’ City
  12. Final Thoughts
  13. References
  14. Index

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