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  • - A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
    af Daniel McDonald & Jens O. Zinn
    600,95 - 728,95 kr.

    This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print news media.

  • - Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
    af JULIA COOK
    590,95 - 597,95 kr.

    This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future.

  • - Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
     
    1.366,95 kr.

    Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers. The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges. With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.

  • - Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
     
    1.360,95 kr.

    Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers. The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges. With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.

  • - A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785-2009
    af Jens O. Zinn
    557,95 - 849,95 kr.

  • af Jens O. Zinn
    560,95 - 857,95 kr.

  • af Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson & Susanna OEhman
    980,95 - 982,95 kr.

    This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence. The authors purport that risk is pervasive in the Global North, and is fast becoming a hegemonic governing principle.

  • - Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts
     
    1.646,95 kr.

    This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained 'ordinary' people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts.

  • af Beata ¿Witek
    1.639,95 kr.

    This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained ¿ordinary¿ people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a variety of extraordinary contexts. It considers political, ethical and moral dimensions of risk and calls for more targeted ethnographic research, designed to reveal how grass-roots risk dispositions and practice intersect with official discourses, individual agency and community resilience.

  • af Jens O. Zinn & Patrick R. Brown
    1.638,95 kr.