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Risk (Key Ideas)

By Deborah Lupton

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
1032327014, 9781032327013
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
389 kB (398201 bytes)
Edition
3
Pages
226\0
Time added
2023-12-31 18:49:20

Description

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists. Understanding how people, social groups and social organizations understand, respond to and act on threats, hazards and dangers is more important than ever. In Risk, Deborah Lupton asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, calling for a re-turn' to risk theory in the social sciences.

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