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Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk. Drawing on the work of key theorists - Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, and Mary Douglas - the authors examine and critique theories of risk in the light of their own research and presents case studies which show how notions of risk interact with day-to-day concerns.
Perceptions of Time and Place in a ‘Risk Modern’ City
Perceptions of Time and Place in a ‘Risk Modern’ City
We do not yet live in a risk society, but we also no longer live only within the distribution conflicts of scarcity society. (Beck, 1992: 20, original emphases)
One of the more useful aspects of Ulrich Beck's work is his renovation of theories of modernity and the ‘post-industrial’. Beck is not concerned with the society of spectacle and simulation of ‘post-modernity’. As we saw in Chapter 1, his interest is with the scientific, economic, ecological political, and biographical uncertainties of the transition from ‘industrial’ (or ‘class’) modernity to ‘risk modernity’. As Beck sees it, the ‘concepts of “industrial” or “class” society’ which ‘revolved around the issue of ...
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