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The acerbity of the...
The acerbity of the social: how to include the social in governmental risk assessments
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- Weber, Magnus (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work,Univ Gothenburg, Dept Sociol & Work Sci, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- 2016-12-14
- 2018
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 21:7, s. 914-931
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Abstract
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- This paper addresses the expansion of risk practices through a case study of a government led project in Sweden purposed to develop a method to include social events in mandatory risk practices. Social heterogeneity was to be transformed into straightforward causality in order to turn the social into a manageable object. In this regard, the project was quite successful. By inviting social scientists into the process, otherwise often marginalized within risk practice, causality and quantifiable risk factors could be established and the model became a rigorous and legitimate scientific model. Although experts were granted significant autonomy and became experts far beyond their own area of expertise, the success of the model lies rather in allowing experts authority within confined boundaries. Grand narratives and critical perspectives are disregarded as too abstract and if social scientists are to infuse aspects of social critique they must adapt to these circumstances: they must become instrumentalists.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- social risk
- risk governance
- governmentality
- expertise
- risk expansion
- epistemic authority
- management
- governance
- knowledge
- patterns
- limits
- Social Sciences - Other Topics
- Social risk
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