SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Life Table, Precautionary Principle, Risk Society
Document Summary
Govermentality understand the calculation and perceptions of risk as being related to the shift into advanced liberalism. Risk is about the way we interpret the world, the way we understand the world. Risk is a particular type of knowledge, it"s a way that we communicate. We communicate things that we know in risk language. Risk is everywhere, encountered risk in a number of ways before coming to class. We are constantly coming into interaction with risk. Risk is often taken into its practical application. E. g. seatbelts weren"t standard in cars in the past and if someone wanted seatbelts they would have to pay extra. Now, we have shifted to a point where the car will continuously beep if we don"t have the seatbelt on. Concerns about risk govern our behaviour about risk for example when we drive during bad weather. People change their behaviour to encounter those risks.
