NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Agnotology, Risk Society
3 Mar 2016
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Lecture 6: readings and notes climate denialism and merchants of doubt: lecture 7: class notes risk and beck, lecture 2. Lecture notes: risk and beck: general overview of risk, clicker q: beck distinguishes b/wtn an industrial society and a risk society. Ii) how risk related to experts and non-experts future. time, some place. Industrial society is organized by the distribution of good; but a risk society is organized by how dangers are distributed. them. Thus this formula is more money and less risks tends to go to members of higher social classes while less money and more risks tend to go to members of lower classes. To that extent, risks seem to strengthen, not to abolish, the class society. What will cause failure?) are factors or failures not accounted for b/c not anticipated. Iii) how risk relates to fear: clicker q: choose the best answer.
