Anxiety in a 'Risk' Society

by Iain Wilkinson

Book Overview

Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society:
looks at the problem of contemporary anxiety from a sociological perspective
highlights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415226813
• ISBN13: 9780415226813
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"