Hélène Joffé

Risk and 'The Other'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores personal responses to risk from a social psychological framework.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780521660099
• ISBN-10: 0521660092
• Artikelnr.: 35450599

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Response to risks: an introduction
2. Human responses to risks: 'not me', 'the other is to blame'
3. A study of lay people's response to risk: HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
4. Evaluating two conventional psychological models of the response to risks
5. The source of linking risk and 'the other': splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'
6. Social representations of risks
7. Emotional life: a new frontier for social theory
8. Changing social representations of risks
References
Index.