Recent developments in sociology of risk and uncertainty

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Zinn, Jens O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Governmentality; Reflexive modernity; Risk; Risk society; Sociology; Systems theory; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 31844451791     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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