"The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently……" — Anthony Giddens
"The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks."
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23 Quotes by Anthony Giddens
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable…
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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations…
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are…
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The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most…
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of…
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject…
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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of…
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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired…
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat…
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