Science and Society in Historical Perspective

Implications for Social Theories of Risk

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5806953
AutoresMaurie J Cohen (0000-0001-9746-8758, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Program Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas153-176
Data de publicação1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironmental Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0963-2719 • E-ISSN: 1752-7015
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3197/096327199129341770
OpenAlexW2087897124
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas26

Over the past decade risk society theory has become increasingly prominent within the field of environmental social theory. This perspective contends that conventional political divisions based on class are becoming less salient and are giving way to a politics predicated upon the distribution of risk. There is much in risk society theory, especially its central contention that public anxieties about high consequence-low probability events undermine the legitimacy of science, that has a distinctly German stamp. Through a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology this paper suggests we should tread carefully in moving to accept the general applicability of this theoretical approach

Risk society · Social theory · Academic Research and Education Studies · Risk Perception and Management · Social Science and Policy Research