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Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory

By Mary Douglas

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0415119995, 9780415119993
Open Library ID
OL7483322M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1304170 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
336\336
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society. In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.

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