Year: 1983
Type: book-review
Abstract: Risk and Culture by anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientistAaron Wildavsky proves that a whole is sometimes less than some ofits parts. The book consists of two interwoven but separable parts: (1) anabstract theory of the relationship between risk and culture; and (2) anapplication of the theory to explain "the sudden, widespread, across-theboardconcern about environmental pollution and personal contaminationthat has arisen in the Western world in general and with particular forcein the United States" (a phenomenon that I will call "environmentalism").
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Author: E. Donald Elliott
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1547385169