This book presents exciting new perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it, using the framework of recent social and cultural theory. The contributors, all leading scholars in the social sciences, combine empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques to tackle an unusually diverse range of topics. These include drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order.
This book presents exciting new perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it, using the framework of re...
This book presents exciting new perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it, using the framework of recent social and cultural theory. The contributors, all leading scholars in the social sciences, combine empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques to tackle an unusually diverse range of topics. These include drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order.
This book presents exciting new perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it, using the framework of re...
Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in making sense of AIDS.
Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, ...
Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.
Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual...
Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.
Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.
Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual...
Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.
This work provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings of fatherhood in contemporary Western societies. The authors draw in poststructuralist theory to analyze the ways that fatherhood is represented in expert literature and in the mass media.
This work provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings of fatherhood in contemporary Western societies. The au...
Continuing and developing the argument of Deborah Lupton's The Imperative of Health, the authors use contemporary socio-cultural and political theory to examine: the notion of citizenship; the concept of the healthy citizen; the healthy cities project; and community participation.
Continuing and developing the argument of Deborah Lupton's The Imperative of Health, the authors use contemporary socio-cultural and political theory ...
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions and subjectivity. She includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the context of childhood and the family, as well as: the gendered social construction of foodstuffs; food tastes, dislikes and preferences; the dining-out experience; spirituality; and the civilized' body. She draws on diverse sources, including representations of food and eating in film, literature,...
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relatio...
'A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education truths' - Choice
'A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profess...
Our concepts of our emotions are integral to our wider conception of ourselves, and are used to give meaning and provide explanation for our lives. This book brings together empirical research and social and cultural theory to examine the nature of the emotional self in western societies.
Our concepts of our emotions are integral to our wider conception of ourselves, and are used to give meaning and provide explanation for our lives. Th...
