'Risk Society': The cult of theory and the millennium?

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 474-491

  Dingwall, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Modernity; Risk Society

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 0032763561     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9515.00164     Document Type: Article

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