Risk and 'the other' / Hélène Joffe.
From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to war, the mass media bring into our lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to it? Using a social psychological framework, this book explores the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me&#...
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1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Responses to risks: an introduction
- Human responses to risks : 'not me', 'the other is to blame'
- A study of lay people's responses to a risk : HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
- Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks
- The source of linking risk and 'the other' : splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'
- Social representations of risks
- Emotional life : a new frontier for social theory
- Changing social representations of risks.