Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory

by Professor Mary Douglas

Overview

Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.
In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134811199
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/03/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	743 KB

About the Author

Professor Mary Douglas

Table of Contents

Introduction, Part I Risk and blame, Part II Wants and institutions, Part III Believing and thinking, Name index, Subject index