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Risk in the Modern Age: Social Theory, Science and Environmental Decision-Making Na Na 2000 edition

Marc Notes: In assn with Anglo-German Fdtn for the Study of Industrial SocietyBiographical Note: Maurie J. Cohen is Research Fellow in Environmental Risk at the Oxford Center for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College. Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction * Sociology, Social Theory, and Risk: An Introductory Discussion--Maurie J. Cohen * Part II: Critiques of Risk and Rationality * The Rational Action Paradigm in Risk Theories: Analysis and Critique--Ortwin Renn, Carlo Jaeger, Eugene A. Rosa, & Thomas Webler * Menus of Choice: The Social Embeddedness of Decisions--Kristen Purcell, Lee Clarke, & Linda Renzulli * Part III: Theoretical Extensions of the Risk Society * Dealing with Environmental Risks in Reflexive Modernity--Joris Hogenboom, Arthur P. J. Mol, & Gert Spaargaren * The Risk Society Reconsidered: Recreancy, The Division of Labor, and Risks to the Social Fabric--William R. Freudenburg * Part IV: Empirical Assessments of Reflective Modernization * Outsiders Just Don't Understand: The Need for Contextual Inquiry about Life in the Contaminated World--Michael Edelstein * The "Exxon Valdez" Disaster as Localized Environmental Catastrophe: Dis(similarities) to the Risk Society--J. Steven Picou & Duane Gill * Part V: Risk and Environmental Decision-Making * Discovering and Inventing Extreme Environments: Sociological Knowledge and Publics at Risk--Stephen R. Couch, Steve Kroll-Smith, & Jeffrey Kindler * Scientific Evidence or Lay People's Experience? On Risk and Trust with Regard to Modern Environmental Threats--Rolf Lidskog * Taming Risks Through Dialogue: The Social Function of Discursive Institutions in Late Modernity--Klaus Eder * Part VI: Conclusion * A Historical Perspective on Risk--David LowenthalPublisher Marketing: From a June-July 1997 workshop at Oxford, England, environmental sociologists look at the processes by which official experts and the general population come up with very different decisions about risk in such areas as nuclear power, genetic testing, food safety, and biodiversity. They explore the r

Contributor Bio:  Cohen, Maurie J Cohen is research fellow in enviornmental risk at the Oxford Center for Enviornment, Ethics and Society at Mansfield College.