Risk and Blame

Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136490043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first half of the book Douglas argues that the study of risk needs a systematic framework of political and cultural comparison. In the latter half she examines questions in cultural theory. Through the eleven essays contained in Risk and Blame, Douglas argues that the prominence of risk discourse will force upon the social sciences a programme of rethinking and consolidation that will include anthropological approaches.

Risk and Blame

Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136490116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Risk and Culture

Author: Mary Douglas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520907396
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most times. Hence, no one can calculate precisely the total risk to be faced. How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to secondary status? This book explores how we decide what risks to take and which to ignore, both as individuals and as a culture.

Risk and Blame

Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811195
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society. In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.

Risk and Blame

Author: Mary Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description

Risk and Blame

Author: Mary Douglas
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415291156
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Ending the Blame Culture

Author: Michael Pearn
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780566079962
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
This book is about mistakes and what we can learn from them. It faces up to, and explains how organizations can escape from 'blame cultures', where fearful conformance and risk avoidance lead to stagnation, to 'gain cultures' which tolerate and even encourage mistakes in the pursuit of innovation, change and improvement. Ending the Blame Culture was written as a result of systematic analysis of the content of over 200 accounts of real mistakes within businesses and organizations. This analysis provides both insight and understanding into the type of mistakes made, the context they were made in and how they helped learning and development. As a result the authors are able to distinguish between intelligent and undesirable mistakes: those which should be tolerated and those which must be avoided. The result is a book which gives sound advice on how individuals learn, practical measures that organizations can adopt to enhance learning through better management of mistakes, and the promotion of a culture which supports and fosters experimentation and risk taking.

Risk

Author: Deborah Lupton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415183338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
In this lively and engaging introduction to one of today's major sociocultural concepts, Deborah Lupton examines why risk has come to such prominence recently.

Purity and Danger

Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136489274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.

Essays on the Sociology of Perception

Author: Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134557434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is always hoping to find better applications to illustrate the power of the two dimensions used for accurate comparison.