Understanding Risk & Trust: A Short Conceptual Examination (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624172024 ISBN 13: 9781624172021

Verlag: Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the concepts of 'risk' and 'trust' that are theoretical tools and arguably major facets of late modernity. New conceptions of trust and risk are rapidly changing theoretical knowledge bases of social science disciplines. A sociologically informed understanding of risk and trust illustrates the interconnectedness of an ageing population and social welfare. From this perspective, risk and trust are more than a calculation of costs and benefits, they are theoretical mechanisms for weighing different sets of political and economic orientations. Drawing from comparative examples, the text assesses the implications of risk and trust for how people in general, and older people in particular, are made welfare subjects in contemporary society.

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Jason L. Powell (Associate Dean of Faculty, Coventry University, UK) and Sheying Chen (Pace University, New York, NY, USA)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1624172024
• ISBN 13: 9781624172021
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
• Herausgeber: Powell Jason L
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