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Author Burzyński, Jan.

Title Taming Risk : Uncertainty, Trust and the Sociological Discourse of Modernity.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (175 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the un ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Burzyński, Tomasz.
Other Form: Print version: Burzynski, Jan. Taming Risk : Uncertainty, Trust and the Sociological Discourse of Modernity. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443853170
ISBN 9781443856089 (electronic book)
1443856088 (electronic book)
9781443853170