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Trust, risk, and uncertainty

Title
  1. Trust, risk, and uncertainty / edited by Sean Watson and Anthony Moran.
Published by
  1. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Watson, Sean, 1962-
  2. Moran, Anthony.
Description
  1. xii, 275 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "From the early 1990s onwards writers such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, among many others, have brought home to English-speaking audiences the new conditions of trust, risk and uncertainty faced by everyone living in the contemporary world. Writers such as Zygmunt Bauman have emphasized the inevitability, and the difficulties, dilemmas and resistances to living with doubt, ambivalence and uncertainty. More recently, thinkers such as Robert Putnam have expanded the debate to link trust and social capital.
  2. Where much of the work within these crucial debates in the social sciences has been theory-based and theory-driven, Trust, Risk and Uncertainty combines theoretical sophistication with empirical analysis and research in the fields of philosophy, education, social policy, government, health and social care, sociology, and media and cultural studies. The book is aimed at graduates, specialist researchers and undergraduates in the social sciences."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Social ethics
  2. Trust
  3. Risk
  4. Uncertainty
  5. Dilemma
  6. Ethics > Psychological aspects
  7. Confidence
  8. Confidence
  9. Dilemma
  10. Ethics > Psychological aspects
  11. Risk
  12. Social ethics
  13. Trust
  14. Uncertainty
  15. Ethik
  16. Zweifel
  17. Psychologie
  18. Existenz
  19. Philosophische Anthropologie
  20. Sociale ethiek
  21. Vertrouwen
  22. Onzekerheid
  23. Dilemma's
  24. Psychologische aspecten
Contents
  1. Radical uncertainty : human emotion and ethical dilemmas / Paul Hoggett -- Trust, risk and identity / Simon Thompson -- Risk, sensibility, ethics and justice in the later Levinas / Peter Jowers -- Moral uncertainty, feminism and Descartes' demon / Alison Assiter -- Trust, risk and expert systems : child protection, modernity and the (changing) management of life and death / Harry Ferguson -- 'They kind of think that I'm better than they are' : risk, identity and change in the lives of mature students in higher education / Arthur Baxter and Carolyn Britton -- Managing uncertainty and subjectivity / Ajit Nayak -- Communities, trust and organisational responses to local governance failure / Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler -- Reporting risk : science journalism and the prospect of human cloning / Stuart Allan, Alison Anderson and Alan Petersen -- Transgressive terrain : risk, otherness and 'new age' nomadism / Leah Wild -- Trusting aggression : the Siennese war machine as social capital / Lita Crociani-Windland -- Trust and uncertainty in a settler society : relations between settlers and aborigines in Australia / Anthony Moran -- Pan's people? Pagan magic, uncertainty and embodied desire / David Green.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.