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ItemThe Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty - Current State and PerspectivesZINN, J (Australian National University, 2009)
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ItemThe Relevance of Social Science Approaches to Risk for Social Policy ResearchZINN, J ; Chan, R ; Takahashi, M ; Lih-Rong Wang, L (Ashgate, 2010)
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ItemThe Current Significance of RiskTaylor-Gooby, P ; Zinn, J ; Taylor-Gooby, P ; Zinn, J (Oxford University Press, 2006)Abstract Risk is to do with uncertainties: possibilities, chances, or likelihoods of events, often as consequences of some activity or policy. As such, risk has always accompanied the development of human society (Sahlins 1974; Garnsey 1988; Gallant 1991). Harvest failure, pestilence, migrations, new currents in religion, technological developments, and the unforeseen consequences of urbanization have all exerted a powerful and typically unpredicted influence on the problems and difficulties we face.
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ItemThe Challenge of (Managing) New RisksTaylor-Gooby, P ; Zinn, J ; The Challenge of (Managing) New Risks, P ; Zinn, J (Oxford University Press, 2006)Abstract Research in the field of risk has expanded rapidly in recent years, as Chapter 2 shows. Social science approaches have developed from an initial concern with the management of technical issues, drawing on rational actor models of behaviour, to include psychological and sociological perspectives which seek to capture the complexity of the factors that influence risk responses in different settings, and the ways in which thinking about and managing risk is embedded in social and cultural contexts.
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ItemComparison and perspectives of sociological theorizing on risk and uncertaintyZinn, J ; Zinn, J (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemRisk society and reflexive modernisationZinn, J ; Zinn, J (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemThe Contribution of Sociology to the Discourse on Risk and UncertaintyZinn, J (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemBiography, Risk and Uncertainty—Is there Common Ground for Biographical Research and Risk Research?Zinn, JO (Freie Universität Berlin, 2010)
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ItemThe Biographical Approach - A Better Way to Understand Behaviour in Health and Illness?Zinn, J (Cambridge University Press, 2005)