D. Curran

Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society - the social production and distribution of risks as side-effects - are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-49556-3
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781137495563
• ISBN-10: 1137495561
• Artikelnr.: 44028581

Autorenporträt

Dean Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include social theory, risk, and class.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Which Risk Society, and for Who?
2. The Sociology of Risk and the Ineliminability of Realism
3. Risk Society and Systematic Social Theory
4. Thinking with Bourdieu, Marx, and Weber to Analyse Contemporary Inequalities and Class
5. Risk Society and the Distribution of Bads
6. Risk Illusion and Organized Irresponsibility in Contemporary Finance
7. Conclusion: Beyond the Quiet Politics of Risk

Rezensionen

"This splendid and very innovative book is a major contribution to our understanding of the implications of Beck's enormously important work." - William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK