D. Curran

Gebundenes Buch

Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

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

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