Understanding Risk and Trust: A Short Conceptual Examination (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century) - Softcover

 
9781624172021: Understanding Risk and Trust: A Short Conceptual Examination (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1624172024 ISBN 13: 9781624172021
Publisher: Nova Novinka, 2013

Synopsis

This book explores the concepts of 'risk' and 'trust' that are theoretical tools and arguably major facets of late modernity. New conceptions of trust and risk are rapidly changing theoretical knowledge bases of social science disciplines. A sociologically informed understanding of risk and trust illustrates the interconnectedness of an ageing population and social welfare. From this perspective, risk and trust are more than a calculation of costs and benefits, they are theoretical mechanisms for weighing different sets of political and economic orientations. Drawing from comparative examples, the text assesses the implications of risk and trust for how people in general, and older people in particular, are made welfare subjects in contemporary society.

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Publisher
Nova Novinka
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1624172024
ISBN 13 
9781624172021
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
56
Editor
Powell Jason L.