Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences: Volume 11

by Mary Douglas

Book Overview

Every day, it seems, we become aware of some new technological or chemical hazard. Yet it is also possible that this very awareness is new, or at least newly heightened. Why are certain kinds of risks suddenly so salient? Are public perceptions of risk simply the sum of individual reactions to individual events, or do social and cultural influences play a role in shaping our definitions of safety, acceptable risk, and danger? Prompted by public outcries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871542110
• ISBN13: 9780871542113
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.9"