The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, and sociology. "Social Theories of Risk" traces the intellectual origins and histories of 12 of the established and emerging paradigms from the perspective of their principal proponents. Each contrib...(展开全部)

The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, and sociology. "Social Theories of Risk" traces the intellectual origins and histories of 12 of the established and emerging paradigms from the perspective of their principal proponents. Each contrib...(展开全部)

The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regu...(展开全部)

"Constructing Social Theories" presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract--or applied "a priori" to a problem--but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This ...(展开全部)

"Constructing Social Theories" presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract--or applied "a priori" to a problem--but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This ...(展开全部)

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)

Preface A Theory Is Explanation 3 1 Explanation in the Social Sciences / George C. Homans 9 B Motives and Mechanisms 15 2 Types of Social Action / Max Weber 22 C The Problem of Social Order 27 3 The Moral Basis of a Backward Society / Edward C. Banfield 33 D Meaning 44 4 The Production of Consciousness / Karl Marx 49 5 The Origin of Beliefs / Emile Durkheim 52 6 Genesis and Dev...(展开全部)

Preface A Theory Is Explanation 3 1 Explanation in the Social Sciences / George C. Homans 9 B Motives and Mechanisms 15 2 Types of Social Action / Max Weber 22 C The Problem of Social Order 27 3 The Moral Basis of a Backward Society / Edward C. Banfield 33 D Meaning 44 4 The Production of Consciousness / Karl Marx 49 5 The Origin of Beliefs / Emile Durkheim 52 6 Genesis and Dev...(展开全部)