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Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky
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| #1143225 in Books | imusti | 1983-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.53 x5.51l,.57 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | University of California Press||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Cynthia L. Holmes|For class.|0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Douglas & Wildavsky Risk and Culture is Accurate|By Glenn Bottoms|I think most of the critical reviews are "bothered" because of the book's criticism of environmentalism. In an other place, Douglas referred to environmentalism as a "cu||"Offering what they call a 'cultural theory of risk perception, ' the authors suggest that peoples' complaints about hazards should never be taken at face value. One must look further to discover what forms of social organization are being defended or attacked
Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most times. Hence, no one can calculate precisely the total risk to be faced. How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to...
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