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230077 VO Risk and Society (2009S)

2.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie

Details

max. 35 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 26.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 26.05. 19:00 - 20:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 27.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 27.05. 19:00 - 20:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Thursday 28.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Thursday 28.05. 19:00 - 20:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Friday 29.05. 10:00 - 11:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Ideas about risk can seem complex, inaccessible and seemingly unrelated to life in the social world. This set of lectures will examine the theoretical debates around risk. Concepts of positive and negative risk, danger and fear will also be examined. More substantively risk will be examined with respect to everyday lived experience including aspects of health, crime, employment education, welfare and the portrayal of risk in the media. I will also examine the way in which the notion of risk has impacted on the development of policies in the UK since 1997.
The relationship between risk, terrorism, human rights and international law post 9/11 will also be examined. It will be argued that there is no consensus as to what constitutes risk and that a new model citizenship has emerged based upon the ability of individual citizens to engage with risk constructively.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To critically examine the social construction of risk from a number of theoretical perspectives

Examine the ways in which ideas about risk are related to daily life in advanced capitalist societies.

Examination topics

Lectures and discussion

Reading list

Denney, D. (2005) Risk and Society, London Sage.
Beck, U. (1992) The Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, London ,Sage.
Lupton, D. (1999) Risk , London, Routledge.
Furedi, F. (1998) Culture of Fear, London, Cassel.
Mythen, G. and Walklate, S. (eds) (2006) Beyond the Risk Society-critical reflections on risk and human security, Maidenhead, Open University Press.

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