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.
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9780415119993, 9780415062800, 0415119995, 0415062802, 9781138126619, 1138126616
Risk and Blame Ebook
Essays in Cultural Theory
By: Professor Mary Douglas
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Routledge
Print ISBN: 9780415119993, 0415119995
eText ISBN: 9781134811199, 1134811195
Edition: 1st
Pages: 336
Copyright year: 1994
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