Risk

A Sociological Theory

Niklas Luhmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2005
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
9780202307640 (ISBN)

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A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.

Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Bielefeld. He authored several books, including Archimedes und wir: Interviews, Politische Planung, Love as Passion, Political Theory in the Welfare State, and Essays on Self-Reference. Rhodes Barrett is a coauthor of Ringing the Changes in Europe: Regulatory Competition and the Transformation of the State - Britain, France, Germany and the translator of The Structure of Government and Administration in Germany.

Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition, Introduction, Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk, Chapter 2 The Future as Risk, Chapter 3 Time Binding: Material and Social Aspects, Chapter 4 The Risk of Observing and the Coding of Function Systems, Chapter 5 The Special Case of High Technology, Chapter 6 Decision Makers and Those Affected, Chapter 7 Protest Movements, Chapter 8 Demands on Politics, Chapter 9 Risk in the Economic System, Chapter 10 Risky Behaviour in Organizations, Chapter 11 And Science?, Chapter 12 Second-Order Observation, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2005
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-13	9780202307640 / 9780202307640
Zustand	Neuware