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ItemRisk taking(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-31)This is the first attempt to draw together and define risk studies, through a definitive collection written by the leading scholars in the field.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRisk and theory in Germany(Routledge, 2016-03-31)In Germany debates about risk developed along different lines from those in many other countries. In the US, Ron Johnston noted as early as 1980 that working on risk issues was ‘big business’ (1980: 105) and, in the same year, the Society of Risk Analysis was founded which produces the well-known international journal, Risk Analysis. At this time, in Germany, similar research was less well developed; however, technical-oriented risk research, in particular in chemistry and atomic technology, was being carried out. In addition, beginning in the 1970s in domains such as cancer and pregnancy, there was a significant increase in Risk Factor Medicine (Abholz et al., 1982) although again this was less developed than in the Anglosphere. In the field of psychological research, work was carried out on risk anxieties (Schicha, 1982), risk personalities (Klebelsberg, 1969) and children at risk (Steinhausen et al., 1984) but there was no significant contribution to the domains of risk perception and risk communication, which remained underdeveloped in the 1970s and 80s.
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ItemChanging discourses of risk and health risk: A corpus analysis of the usage of risk language in the New York times(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-01)
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ItemNew life courses and social risks. Implications for social policy in East Asia(Routledge, 2015-10-30)Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable and predictable life course, it now has to cope with non-standardised individual preferences, life courses and families, and the consequent increased risks and uncertainties. This book examines these new life courses and their impact on social policy across a range of East Asian societies. It shows how governments and social welfare institutions have been slow to respond to the new challenges. In response, we propose a life-course sensitised policy as an approach to manage these risks. Overall, the book provides many new insights which will assist advance social policy in East Asia.
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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)