Risk in social science
By: [edited by] Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn.
Contributors: Taylor-Gooby, Peter.; Zinn, Jens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780199285952; 9780199285969
Subjects: Risk -- Sociological aspects.; Risk management -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The current significance of risk / Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens O. Zinn; title: Risk as an interdisciplinary research area / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby; title: The challenge of (managing) new risks / Jens O. Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby; title: Crime and risk / Hazel Kemshall; title: Risk, environment, and technology / Nick Pidgeon, Peter Simmons, and Karen Henwood; title: Everyday life, and leisure time / John Tulloch; title: Risk and intimate relationships / Jane Lewis and Sophie Sarre; title: Health and risk / Andy Alaszewski; title: Life course, youth, and old age / Sarah Vickerstaff; title: Risk, regulation, and management / Bridget Hutter; title: Social inequality and risk / anwen Jones, David Abbott, and Deborah Quilgars; title: The media and risk / Emma Hughes, Jenny Kitzinger, and Graham Murdock; title: Social and public policy : reflexive individualization and regulatory governance / Peter Taylor-Gooby.