SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Risk Society, Industrial Revolution, Ulrich Beck
10 Nov 2015
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* no readings, so a few multiple choice and at least one written question from this week will be on the exam. Outside of academics, most people inquire about the risks of certain behaviours. I. e. what the negative outcome of a particular behaviour or act tends to be. Negative outcome can be psychological, personal, nancial, etc. The way we think about risk changes over time. Risk itself does not exist, it is the perception of a possible future about something that hasn"t. Decisions are being made and risk is being sought out, looked at, analyzed, on the premise. Sophisticated science and math to detect probabilities of risk in policing. Concepts that dominate basically every aspect of the community and almost all institutions. Risk analysis (ra) happened and we are trying to determine what could possibly happen that the past can help determine the future. Risk analysis (ra) and risk management (rm)
