Risk as politics, culture as power

James Tansey

Journal of Risk Research, 2004, vol. 7, issue 1, 17-32

Abstract: The cultural theory of risk has been misinterpreted in recent years. Most significantly, the grid--group typology, which was originally developed as a heuristic device, embedded in a much deeper sociological theory, has been taken out this original context. Both the ontological foundations and the epistemological implications of cultural theory have been misunderstood in a significant number of cases. This paper provides a summary of the neo-Durkheimian institutional theory from which the typology was derived and suggests a number of relatively unexplored avenues for risk research.

Date: 2004
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