SOC 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Osama Bin Laden, Risk Aversion, Misanthropy
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Lecture #4: test october 23rd (chapters 1-3) first three weeks. Mc, some short answers: presentation -provide a summary of the article. The very important implication to this is that while my parents feared together, you and i have a more isolated, private experience. Hazards are not merely such obvious threats such as poison, bacteria, toxic waste. At various times, peanuts, tampons, automobiles, and contraceptive pills have been represented as hazards: due to changing means and usage of the risk concept, it is important that it is considered in relation to specific societies and contexts. Ideas and values about society and its future that prevail at any one time influence the way in which risk is percieved: all risk concepts are based on the distinction between reality and possibility. Concept would not make any sense if the future is either predetermined or independent of present human activities.
