Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 37 (1) , 80-95
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800796
Abstract
A sociological approach to the study of risk assumes that risk and safety exist in and through social organization rather than as objective conditionKeywords
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