TY - BOOK ID - 182349 TI - Risk and sociocultural theory : new directions and perspectives PY - 1999 SN - 0521645549 0521642078 0511520778 9780521645546 9780521642071 9780511520778 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of culture KW - Risk KW - Risk perception KW - Sociological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - 316.32 KW - Globale samenlevingsvormen KW - 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen KW - Risicoperceptie KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Risk - Sociological aspects KW - Risk perception - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:182349 AB - This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations, and is central to the work of writers such as Douglas, Beck, Giddens and the Foucauldian theorists. The contributors are all leading scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural and media studies and cultural anthropology. Combining empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques, they tackle an unusually diverse range of topics including drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, anxieties about national identity, the governmental uses of risk and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order. ER -