Article: Global risks and social inequality: critical remarks on the risk-society hypothesis.

Article: Global risks and social inequalilty: critical remarks on the ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Furthermore, instead of assuming that risk-societies overcome class conflicts, the ... Introduction: The Risk-Society Hypothesis (1) The "risk-society hypothesis ... from "class societies" to "risk societies." To Beck, class societies ...

Article: Future for newspapers does not look bright.(Originated from ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 13, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... last one, but it's also true the villain might be ... ``you,'' the reader. Under the Decline of Civil Society Hypothesis, you have fallen down on your civic duties, such as voting, attending PTA meetings, and ``reading the newspaper ...

Article: Can the rational choice framework cope with the culture?
PS: Political Science & Politics;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... minor modification of it. In its South African application no less than in its general formulation, the divided society hypothesis has proven at least as elusive empirically as the strategic actor one. What counts as evidence for the existence ...

Article: Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. (Book ...
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... make up Part I, O'Malley examines how the notion of "risk societies" rose in importance with the rise of capitalism, and at ... minimization. He forcefully illustrates that the shape and form of risk societies depend on the variable interplay of social and economic ...

Article: Williams, Christopher, Chuprov, Vladimir, & Zubok, Julia. Youth, ...
Adolescence;  June 22, 2005 ;     525 words ... ... theories of risk and applies them to young people in different risk societies. The volume refers to recent social and cultural theory ... differences of growing up in various stable and unstable risk societies and assess the degree of conflict between youth and society ...

Article: Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... make up Part I, O'Malley examines how the notion of "risk societies" rose in importance with the rise of capitalism, and at ... minimization. He forcefully illustrates that the shape and form of risk societies depend on the variable interplay of social and economic ...

Article: New social science research from George Washington University ...
Politics & Government Week;  September 25, 2008 ;     699 words ... ... development, especially in at-risk countries? Following reviews of potential diaspora contributions and the parameters of at-risk societies, the case of Coptic Orphans is presented," scientists writing in the journal Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ...