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ItemUnderstanding risk and old age in western society(Emerald, 2007-03-06)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of “risk” in relation to old age. Ideas are explored linked with what has been termed as the “risk society” and the extent to which it has become part of the organizing ground of how we define and organise the “personal” and “social spaces” in which to grow old in western modernity. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical paper in three parts, including: an introduction to the relevance and breakdown in trust relations; a mapping out of the key assumptions of risk society; and examples drawn from social welfarism to consolidate an understanding of the contructedness of old age in late modernity. Findings Part of this reflexive response to understanding risk and old age is the importance of recognising self‐subjective dimensions of emotions, trust, biographical knowledge and resources. Originality/value This discussion provides a critical narrative to the importance and interrelatedness of the sociology of risk to the study of old age.
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ItemGender Inequalities and Risk During the 'Rush Hour' of Life(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Increasingly, social policies combine to intensify old risks and create new social risks with unequal consequences for men and women. These risks include those created by changing normative expectations and the resulting tensions between social policy, paid employment and family life. Policy reliance on highly aggregated standardised outcome data and generalised models of autonomous rational action result in policies that lack an understanding of the rationales that structure everyday life. Drawing on two Australian studies, we illustrate the importance of attending to the intersections and collisions of social change and normative policy frameworks from the perspective of individual ‘lived lives’.
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ItemThe Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty - Current State and Perspectives(Australian National University, 2009)
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ItemThe Current Significance of Risk(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 Risks(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 uncertainty(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemRisk society and reflexive modernisation(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemThe Contribution of Sociology to the Discourse on Risk and Uncertainty(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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ItemBiography, Risk and Uncertainty—Is there Common Ground for Biographical Research and Risk Research?(Freie Universität Berlin, 2010)