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‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of...
Living with risk and everyday sense-making ‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population study In western industrialised societies, asymptomatic individuals...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Living with risk and everyday sense-making

‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are...
Risk governance and governmentality ‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are what we have’: neoliberal governmentality and the governance of Covid-19 risk in social media posts in...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Risk governance and governmentality

Collection: Sociology of Vaccines
Vaccination has long been a central tool in the management of infectious disease – though it is not without associated controversy and resistance. The COVID-19 pandemic has served to enhance...

Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday...
Public health and individual health care are increasingly oriented towards managing risks. This ‘surveillance medicine’ does not target present illnesses but aims to prevent possible future conditions, greatly expanding the...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Living with risk and everyday sense-making

Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities...
Category Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

Difficult dialogues about death: applying risk orders theory to analyse...
Understandings of risk permeate end-of-life (EOL) care contexts. In addition to the risk of bodily death, patients, family and healthcare providers face spiritual and communication risks during EOL care. The...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Healthcare work and multiple risks

Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives
Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts “This collection of essays provides a wonderful insight into the very ordinary way that us, human beings engage with risk...
Category Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

Italian Sociological Review – Vol. 12 No. 8S (2022)
The articles in this issue below: "Living on the Volcano of Civilization”. For the Thirtieth Anniversary of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society Fabio D'Andrea, Andrea Lombardinilo World Risk Society and Ulrich...
Category Health, Risk & Society

Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky...
Risk governance and governmentality Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject This article examines how older motherhood and older mothers are problematised and represented in...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Risk governance and governmentality

Rationales of risk and uncertainty and their epistemological foundation by...
Risk studies have shown that many people rather than following rational means of managing risk refer to non-rational (hope, faith) and in-between rationales (trust, intuition), which are not irrational but...

Risk-taking and social inequality
Abstract Even though risk-taking is a common and widespread social experience sociological theorizing on the concept is scarce. This contribution aims to systematize and advance understanding of risk-taking and its...

Zweite Moderne und Risikogesellschaft
Die Begriffe reflexive bzw. zweite Moderne und Risikogesellschaft gehen auf Ulrich Beck zurück, der Mitte der 1980er-Jahre einen radikalen Wandel im gesellschaftlichen Verständnis und Umgang mit Natur und Technik diagnostizierte. Die Erfolge der Moderne und insbesondere...