THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF 'TECHNOLOGICAL RISK' (Spoleczna konstrukcja ryzyka technologicznego)

• Autorzy: Gadomska Magdalena
• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

The decisions concerning post-modern technologies, which have many good and bad (and often hardly predictable) consequences that modify our world, involve difficult scientific, political and axiological questions. The management of technological risk ever more frequently leads to social conflicts where expert knowledge clashes with (not always manifested) preferences regarding the desirable socio-economic development of our world. These 'technological conflicts', being an area where the legitimization of both science and authority are questioned, create, nevertheless, the platform for the solution of this crisis. The article reviews the range of sociological problems related to the management and communication of technological risk as well as to its social representation (both in the form of common-sense and scientific knowledge). It also indicates the trans-disciplinary and philosophical dimensions of this issue and stresses the importance and social functions of the democratic debate on the risk and advantages of post-modern technology and their governance.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

ACCEPTABLE RISK; CULTURAL THEORY; RISK COMMUNICATION; RISK GOVERNANCE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RISK; TECHNOLOGICAL RISK

• Wydawca: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Czasopismo: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 53
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 45-67
• Rodzaj publikacji: ARTICLE

Twórcy

autor

Gadomska Magdalena,

• Magdalena Gadomska, European Fusion Development Agreement - EFDA (for postal address contact the journal editor)

Identyfikatory

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068614