Risks, Identities and the Everyday
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0754648613
ISBN-13
9780754648611
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 28th, 2007
Print length
148 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Risk assessmentSocial, group or collective psychology
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Explains risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment dominate our everyday lives and explores it in a variety of settings. This book interrogates the rational self at the heart of social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some risks as acceptable.
Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment increasingly dominate our everyday lives and explore it in a variety of settings not previously associated with risk theory, including: plastic surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing and independent travel. The volume moves risk away from abstract theorising about what people may or may not fear about risks, to focus on how it actually materialises and operates in everyday ''real'' social interactions and contexts. It also interrogates the rational self at the heart of macro social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that ''present'' some risks as acceptable, appropriate and necessary.
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