Judith Green

Risk And Misfortune (eBook, PDF)

The Social Construction Of Accidents

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There has been a growing sociological interest in both risk and its management, and with how we cope with the uncertainties of late twentieth century life. This study traces the emergence of the "accident" as a marginal misfortune in modernist thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000657203
• Artikelnr.: 58794385

Autorenporträt

Judith Green is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Characterizing accidents
Rationality and the emergence of accidents
Risk and the accident today
Preventing accidents
The social production of fatal accidents
The production of everyday accidents.