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    Striking Back against Empire: Working-Class responses to Globalisation
    BURGMANN, V (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
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    Imaginings, narratives, and otherness: On diacritical hermeneutics
    Rundell, J ; Gratton, P ; Manoussakis, JP (Northwestern University Press, 2007-12-01)
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    Themes and dialogues in contemporary French critical theory
    Deranty, JP ; Petherbridge, D ; Rundell, J ; Deranty, JP ; Petherbridge, D ; Rundell, J ; Sinnerbrink, R (BRILL, 2007-01-01)
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    The Relevance of Social Science Approaches to Risk for Social Policy Research
    ZINN, J ; Chan, R ; Takahashi, M ; Lih-Rong Wang, L (Ashgate, 2010)
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    The Current Significance of Risk
    Taylor-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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    The Challenge of (Managing) New Risks
    Taylor-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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    Comparison and perspectives of sociological theorizing on risk and uncertainty
    Zinn, J ; Zinn, J (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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    Risk society and reflexive modernisation
    Zinn, J ; Zinn, J (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
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    Risk as an Interdisciplinary Research Area
    Zinn, 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.