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Pages: 232
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Pages: 344
Authors: Professor Mary Douglas
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first half of the book
Risk and Technological Culture
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Pages: 248
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The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a c
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Pages: 0
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Written in the last two decades of her life, Cultures and Crises finds Mary Douglas developing analyses of critical conditions facing contemporary societies, so