The Risk Society and Beyond
Subtitle: Critical Issues for Social Theory
Contributors: Barbara Adam (Editor); Ulrich Beck (Editor); Joost Van Loon (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: July 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780761964681
Subjects: Risk assessment; Social theory; Social Science; Social Change; Sociology - Social Theory; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social sciences; Social Science / Sociology / General; Philosophy; Risk perception; Risk-taking (Psychology)
First sentence: Every technology produces, provokes, programs a specific accident ...