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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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ItemRisk, Affect and EmotionZinn, J (Freie Universität Berlin, 2006)
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ItemRecent Developments in Sociological Risk TheoryZinn, J ( 2006)
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ItemCurrent Directions in Risk Research: New Developments in Psychology and SociologyTaylor-Gooby, P ; Zinn, J (Wiley, 2006)This article reviews the main approaches to risk in psychology and sociology and considers recent developments. It shows that research continues from a wide range of perspectives. Some developments in psychological thinking have recently acknowledged the importance of the cultural framing of risk perceptions and responses and the positive power of emotions to manage uncertainties, while some streams of work in sociology have moved toward more individualist approaches. These converging processes open opportunities for cross-fertilization and for using insights from both disciplines in the development of research.
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ItemRisk as an Interdisciplinary Research AreaZinn, J ; Taylor-Gooby, P ; Zinn, J (Oxford University Press, 2006)Abstract Risk issues initially attracted attention as the growing complexity of technical processes and enterprises generated interest in practical problems of risk management. Two factors—the realization that accidents and errors were not simply technical issues, and the increased opposition of members of the public to innovations—directed attention to psychological and sociological approaches to risk. As theoretical and empirical work developed, researchers from different perspectives recognized the importance of the sociocultural embeddedness of risk perceptions.