eprintid: 13700 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/37/00 datestamp: 2016-08-12 08:41:19 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:33 status_changed: 2016-08-12 08:41:19 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Thompson, M. creators_name: Wildavsky, A. creators_id: 862 title: Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk ispublished: pub abstract: Risk, though it has some roots in nature, is inevitably subject to social processes. An individual is led to impose cut-off points, not because his eyesight is not good enough but because of the social and cultural institutions that are stabilized and made credible for him by virtue of his social context and its appropriate cosmology. A different individual in a different social context is led to impose on his external world all kinds of risks that have no physical counterpart. date: 1982 date_type: published publisher: Springer Verlag creators_browse_id: 306 creators_browse_id: 2572 creators_browse_id: 2571 full_text_status: none series: Proceedings of a Summer Study on Decision Processes and Institutional Aspects of Risk place_of_pub: Berlin/Heidelberg pagerange: 145-161 refereed: TRUE isbn: 3540120122 book_title: Risk Analysis Controversy: An Institutional Perspective editors_name: Kunreuther, H.C. editors_name: Ley, E.V. editors_id: AL1609 editors_id: AL1608 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart citation: Thompson, M. & Wildavsky, A. (1982). Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk. In: Risk Analysis Controversy: An Institutional Perspective. Eds. Kunreuther, H.C. & Ley, E.V. , pp. 145-161 Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. ISBN 3540120122