Risk and 'the other'
From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798500406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Responses to risks: an introduction; 2 Human responses to risks: 'not me', 'the other is to blame'; 3 A study of lay people's responses to a risk HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa; 4 Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks; 5 The source of linking risk and 'the other': splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'; 6 Social representations of risks; 7 Emotional life: a new frontier for social theory; 8 Changing social representations of risks; References; Index
