NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Parachuting, Risk Society, Industrial Society
7 Mar 2016
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Lecture 14: readings and notes climate denialism and merchants of doubt. Lecture notes: risk and beck: general overview of risk, clicker q: beck disinguishes b/wtn an industrial society and a risk society. Ii) how risk related to experts and non-experts: clicker q: for beck distribuion follows social class, but inversely. 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?: ulimately probabilisic risk analysis is a model of the whole system so there are factors or failures not accounted for b/c not anicipated. Iii) how risk relates to fear: clicker q: choose the best answer. For beck, the ideals of the class society are to atain equality, and do something posiive and good.
