Risk and 'The Other'
- Author: Hélène Joffé, University College London
- Date Published: September 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669696
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From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to explain how, within a given social and cultural context, individuals make sense of impending crisis. In particular it tries to explain the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor. Using a social psychological framework it highlights emotional factors which are a key component of responses to risk but have hitherto been neglected due to the tendency of much work on risk to concentrate almost exclusively on cognitive processing. This book will appeal to an international audience of post-graduates, academics and researchers in the areas of risk, psychology, sociology, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic studies.
Read more- Fresh approach to the study of risk, taking account of the effect of emotion
- Broad review of the current literature across social psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and cultural theory
- Synthesised examination of empirical research, theory and the rich body of data from across the social scientific spectrum
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- Date Published: September 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669696
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Response to risks: an introduction
2. Human responses to risks: 'not me', 'the other is to blame'
3. A study of lay people's response to risk: HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
4. Evaluating two conventional psychological models of the response to risks
5. The source of linking risk and 'the other': splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'
6. Social representations of risks
7. Emotional life: a new frontier for social theory
8. Changing social representations of risks
References
Index.
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