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by Piet Strydom (Author) "In accordance with the theoretical and methodological approach adopted in this book, I begin with a descriptive analysis of a series of international debates and..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Open University Press (1 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0335207839
  • ISBN-13: 978-0335207831
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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*How and why have the closed expert debates of past decades become an open public discourse about nuclear, environmental and biotechnological risks?
* What can a cultural and institutional analysis reveal about risks and their social construction?
* Is it possible to develop a new critical theory of the risk society?

This book offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions but also public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized. Piet Strydom reconstructs public debates and social scientific theories to provide a fresh approach to the risk society. The result is a penetrating and essential text for students and researchers across a range of areas including sociology, environmental studies, politics, and cultural and communications studies.


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Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork, where he was responsible for a variety of collaborative EU research projects. Having published noted articles in journals such as Political Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory and Current Sociology, he most recently presented his research programme in a major work entitled Discourse and Knowledge (2000).
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3.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate book information, 26 Jul 2007
The book seems to be an interesting read so far. Unfortunaly the book publication details are inaccurate - it was published in 2002 rather than in 2007, which makes it rather old in the world of academia. Considering I bought it because I thought it was new (otherwise I would have got it from our library) it was a disappointment to find out the correct publication date.
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