Overview
- First book of its kind to present an overview of methods of risk
- Discusses the specific challenges of risk research and the different various accompanying structural factors and subjective experiences
- Distinguishes four major influential research methods—observation, interviewing, structural analysis and content analysis
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (CRSTRU)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Narrative, Biographical and Mixed Analyses
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Front Matter
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Discourse and Semantic Analyses
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Keywords
About this book
Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.
This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers.
The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges.
With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anna Olofsson is Professor of Sociology at Mid Sweden University and the director of the Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Sweden.
Jens O. Zinn is T.R Asworth Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the ESRC Centre of Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK (2016-2018) and Research Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Risk and Uncertainty
Book Subtitle: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
Editors: Anna Olofsson, Jens O. Zinn
Series Title: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95852-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95851-4Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07105-9Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95852-1Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-7268
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7276
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 384
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics