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Risk : a sociological theory

Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Aldine Transaction, 2005.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1st paperback editionView all editions and formats
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"This new edition of Risk includes an outstanding essay on the enormous importance of Niklas Luhmann in contemporary social theory. The authors explain not only why he has been all but ignored in the English-speaking world, but the lasting importance of Luhmann in developing a genuinely innovative vision of the component of modern society. Stehr and Bechmann show how the author of Risk is a universal scholar located  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Niklas Luhmann
ISBN: 0202307646 9780202307640
OCLC Number: 57422783
Notes: English translation originally published: New York : A. de Gruyter, ©1993.
Description: xxxiii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Ch. 1. The concept of risk --
Ch. 2. The future as risk --
Ch. 3. Time binding : material and social aspects --
Ch. 4. The risk of observing and the coding of function systems --
Ch. 5. The special case of high technology --
Ch. 6. Decision makers and those affected --
Ch. 7. Protest movements --
Ch. 8. Demands on politics --
Ch. 9. Risk in the economic system --
Ch. 10. Risky behaviour in organizations --
Ch. 11. And science? --
Ch. 12. Second-order observation.
Other Titles: Soziologie des Risikos.
Responsibility: Niklas Luhmann, translated by Rhodes Barrett, with a new introduction by Nico Stehr & Gotthard Bechmann.

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Theoretical sociology has shown little interest in risk research. Here, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential  Read more...

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