Niklas Luhmann

Risk (eBook, PDF)

A Sociological Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351492911
• Artikelnr.: 49258470

Autorenporträt

Niklas Luhmann ist Professor für Soziologie (em.) an der Universität Bielefeld. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk
Chapter 2 The Future as Risk
Chapter 3 Time Binding: Material and Social Aspects
Chapter 4 The Risk of Observing and the Coding of Function Systems
Chapter 5 The Special Case of High Technology
Chapter 6 Decision Makers and Those Affected
Chapter 7 Protest Movements
Chapter 8 Demands on Politics
Chapter 9 Risk in the Economic System
Chapter 10 Risky Behaviour in Organizations
Chapter 11 And Science?
Chapter 12 Second-Order Observation
Index

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Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition, Introduction, Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk, Chapter 2 The Future as Risk, Chapter 3 Time Binding: Material and Social Aspects, Chapter 4 The Risk of Observing and the Coding of Function Systems, Chapter 5 The Special Case of High Technology, Chapter 6 Decision Makers and Those Affected, Chapter 7 Protest Movements, Chapter 8 Demands on Politics, Chapter 9 Risk in the Economic System, Chapter 10 Risky Behaviour in Organizations, Chapter 11 And Science?, Chapter 12 Second-Order Observation, Index