Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 336 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781134811199
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780415119993, 9780203430866, 9781138126619
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 03/23/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Mary Douglas
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.