Titlebook: Risk in the Modern Age; Social Theory, Scien Maurie J. Cohen Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

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of knowledge, these expert evaluations often depart from the assessments of ordinary members of the public. Whether the issue is nuclear power, genetic testing, food safety, or biodiversity, conservation lay people are increasingly charging experts with being ignorant of local contextual considerati

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The Rational Actor Paradigm in Risk Theories: Analysis and Critiquel thinkers. Technical experts — engineers, toxicologists, epidemiologists, and social scientists — and social theorists have been competing for public attention in the risk arena.. A model of coexistence juxtaposing the technical understanding of risk and the social science perspective has emerged o

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Dealing with Environmental Risks in Reflexive Modernity has been to gain a better understanding of the birth and development of environmental issues in society and the way society changes in dealing with them. During the 1970s and early 1980s the debate between distinct schools of thought in what we would now label environmental sociology focused on the

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‘Outsiders Just Don’t Understand’: Personalization of Risk and the Boundary Between Modernity and Ponal in Niagara Falls, New York and the spread of dioxin following an explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Seveso, Italy. In these instances, reflecting chronic and acute cases of contamination, residents were relocated and permanent ‘dead zones’ were created on the landscape. Based upon such event

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Discovering and Inventing Hazardous Environments: Sociological Knowledge and Publics at Risk’. Specifically, they are interested in how sociological knowledge ‘becomes part of the culture and society that academic sociologists themselves study.’. The authors do an interesting job of tracing how certain sociological terms become part of the language of the larger culture, while other terms