The Contemporary culture of blame and the fetishization of the modernist mentality

Current Sociology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 661-683

  Lau, Raymond W K ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accident; Culture of blame; Individualization; Modernist mentality; Modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349277199     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392109337651     Document Type: Article

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