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A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.

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• Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. xxvii)
• Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 The Future as Risk(p. 33)
• Chapter 3 Time Binding: Material and Social Aspects(p. 51)
• Chapter 4 The Risk of Observing and the Coding of Function Systems(p. 73)
• Chapter 5 The Special Case of High Technology(p. 83)
• Chapter 6 Decision Makers and Those Affected(p. 101)
• Chapter 7 Protest Movements(p. 125)
• Chapter 8 Demands on Politics(p. 145)
• Chapter 9 Risk in the Economic System(p. 175)
• Chapter 10 Risky Behaviour in Organizations(p. 187)
• Chapter 11 And Science?(p. 203)
• Chapter 12 Second-Order Observation(p. 219)
• Index(p. 233)

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Luhmann develops a general theory of risk in modern societies, beginning with a geometry of precise definitions that differentiates risk from danger and that views risk from the perspective of a self-conscious actor who attributes calculable outcomes to a projected future. Risk entails specific forms of communicative interaction regarding the future through the medium of probability or improbability of expected or untoward outcomes. Thus, the assessment of risk and the problem of collective risky behavior assumes increasing importance in the institutional spheres of modern society, most notably the economy, polity, law, and science. Luhmann incorporates risk theory within his developmental and system-analytic theory of society through important chapter-length discussions on protest movements, decision makers and affected publics, and the special cases of high-technology industries, science, and formal organizations. Luhmann's essay will encourage continued theoretical reflection and provide the impetus for a more theoretically informed research agenda pertaining to risk and modernity. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty. J. H. Rubin; Saint Joseph College