Table of Contents

1. Which Risk Society, and for Who?
2. The Sociology of Risk and the Ineliminability of Realism
3. Risk Society and Systematic Social Theory
4. Thinking with Bourdieu, Marx, and Weber to Analyse Contemporary Inequalities and Class
5. Risk Society and the Distribution of Bads
6. Risk Illusion and Organized Irresponsibility in Contemporary Finance
7. Conclusion: Beyond the Quiet Politics of Risk

About the Author

Dean Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include social theory, risk, and class.

Reviews

"This splendid and very innovative book is a major contribution to our understanding of the implications of Beck's enormously important work." - William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK