Some have argued that these kinds of risks stand outside the moral panic/ folk devil framework. What is the proportional response to an issue like global warming? Who are the folk devils to scapegoat and fear?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Risk Society
Ulrich Beck (1992) has described contemporary society as a "risk society" in which the hazardous chemical, nuclear, and environmental byproducts of modernity become modernity's central concern.
Some have argued that these kinds of risks stand outside the moral panic/ folk devil framework. What is the proportional response to an issue like global warming? Who are the folk devils to scapegoat and fear?
Some have argued that these kinds of risks stand outside the moral panic/ folk devil framework. What is the proportional response to an issue like global warming? Who are the folk devils to scapegoat and fear?
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