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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

Paperback

Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society, Book 17

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0803983468
ISBN13: 9780803983465
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Sep 3 1992
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

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