Risk and Blame - Essays in Cultural Theory (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	1992
Authors:	Professor Mary Douglas
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-12661-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Decision theory > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-138-12661-6
Barcode:	9781138126619

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