Anxiety in a 'Risk' Society - 9780415226806

Taylor & Francis

This book offers a sociological conception of the problem of anxiety, and dwells upon its significance for the ways we make sense of our current age of risk and uncertaintly. > 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 perspectivehighlights its significance for the ways we make sense of risk and uncertaintyargues that the relationship between anxiety and risk hinges on the nature of anxiety.Iain Wilkinson believes that there is much for sociologists to learn from those who have made the condition of anxiety the focus of their life's work. By making anxiety the focus of sociological inquiry, a critical vantan