Controlling interests : business, the state, and society in New Zealand / edited by John Deeks and Nick Perry.
"From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attemp...
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Auckland, N.Z. :
Auckland University Press,
1992.
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| Summary: | "From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to explain how, within a given social and cultural context, individuals make sense of impending crisis. In particular it tries to explain the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor. Using a social psychological framework it highlights emotional factors which are a key component of responses to risk but have hitherto been neglected due to the tendency of much work on risk to concentrate almost exclusively on cognitive processing. This book will appeal to an international audience of post-graduates, academics and researchers in the areas of risk, psychology, sociology, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic studies.; ; ; URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/99013648.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99013648; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for Risk and 'the other' / Helene Joffe.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.; From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to explain how, within a given social and cultural context, individuals make sense of impending crisis. In particular it tries to explain the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor. Using a social psychological framework it highlights emotional factors which are a key component of responses to risk but have hitherto been neglected due to the tendency of much work on risk to concentrate almost exclusively on cognitive processing. This book will appeal to an international audience of post-graduates, academics and researchers in the areas of risk, psychology, sociology, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic studies.; ; ; RECORD: .b10253361; URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/92250199-d.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92250199; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for Controlling interests : business, the state, and society in New Zealand / edited by John Deeks and Nick Perry.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; New Zealand's economic experiment under the Fourth Labour Government is of considerable international interest. Written by a number of leading experts, these essays focus on the rapidly changing relations between government and business. This volume provides comprehensive discussion of issuessuch as pay equity, anti-smoking legislation, Treaty of Waitangi claims, and deregulation and multinationals."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1869400666 9781869400668 |