Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
128
Language
English
Published
Apr 15, 2013
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1135033730
ISBN-13
9781135033736
Description
First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Douglas raises questions about rational choice, the provision of public good and the autonomy of the individual.