{"product_id":"the-risk-society-and-beyond-9780761964698","title":"The Risk Society and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUlrich Beck's best selling \u003cb\u003eRisk Society\u003c\/b\u003e established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. \u003cb\u003e The Risk Society and Beyond\u003c\/b\u003e charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic.  The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arguments in \u003cb\u003eRisk Society \u003c\/b\u003eand develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - Barbara Adam and Joost van Loon    Repositioning Risk: The Challenge for Social Theory PART ONE: RECASTING RISK CULTURE Risk or Angst Society? - Alan Scott    Two Views of Risk, Consciousness and Community Risk Culture - Scott Lash Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New Genetics - Hilary Rose PART TWO: CHALLENGING BIG SCIENCE Nuclear Risks - Alan Irwin, Stuart Allan and Ian Welsh    Three Problematics Genotechnology - Lindsay Prior, Peter Glasner and Ruth McNally    Three Challenges to Risk Legitimation Health and Responsibility - Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim    From Social Change to Technological Change and Vice Versa PART THREE: MEDIATING TECHNOLOGIES OF RISK Child Organ Stealing Stories - Claudia Castaneda    Risk, Rumour and Reproductive Technologies Liturgies of Fear - Howard Caygill    Biotechnology and Culture Virtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction - Joost van Loon PART FOUR: P(L)AYING FOR FUTURES Information, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading - Deirdre Boden Discourses of Risk and Utopia - Ruth Levitas Risk Society Revisited - Ulrich Beck    Theory, Politics and Research Programmes","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768007262551,"sku":"9780761964698","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761964698.jpg?v=1758715879","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-risk-society-and-beyond-9780761964698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}