Judith Green

Risk And Misfortune (eBook, ePUB)

The Social Construction Of Accidents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There has been a growing sociological interest in both risk and its management, and with how we cope with the uncertainties of late 20th- century life. Understanding accidents is the key to understanding the risk society, for accidents are both the paradigmatic challenge for risk technologies to predict the apparently unpredictable and the ultimate

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000672923
• Artikelnr.: 58786427

Autorenporträt

Judith Green is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Characterizing accidents
Rationality and the emergence of accidents
Risk and the accident today
Preventing accidents
The social production of fatal accidents
The production of everyday accidents.