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anthropological approaches to risk analysis
anthropology of risk
Author_Mary Douglas
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Classical Utility Theory
Commercial Nuclear Power Plants
Cosmic Plot
cultural theory
Developing Life Cycle
Energy Sources
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Fish Sellers
Human Kind
immunity
individual
institutional decision making
Ke Le
Lo Ui
Local Regime
Negative Relationship
Objective Rights
Pe Rc
perception
public good provision
rational
rational choice critique
Real World Probabilities
Risk Perception
risk perception models
Risk Perception Questionnaires
Rumor Transmission
social
Societal Risk Perception
subjective
Subjective Immunity
Swine Flu
thought
Toxic Industrial Wastes
Uc Le
Vice Versa
Voluntary Associations
western
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415291149
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Douglas raises questions about rational choice, the provision of public good and the autonomy of the individual.
