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Contradictory approaches? On realism and constructivism in the social sciences research on risk, technology and the environment
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Abstract This article discusses approaches to researching the risk-problems of industrial societies. It
examines why the risk-constructivism neglects questions of the material production of risks in
favor of questions of their communicative construction, while the risk-realism does it the other
way round.... mehr
This article discusses approaches to researching the risk-problems of industrial societies. It
examines why the risk-constructivism neglects questions of the material production of risks in
favor of questions of their communicative construction, while the risk-realism does it the other
way round. Subsequently the possibilities of a synthesis of both approaches are being considered.
The societal functions of risk-constructions are accordingly not limited to their efficacy in the
sphere of social communication processes. They lie as well in the field of regulation of the
metabolism of societies and their ecological environment. The validity of risk-constructions is
consequently not only bound to their cultural weightiness, whether one believes in them or not,
but to their capacity to manage realities, measured by their ability to bring expectations in
accordance with events. Risk-constructions are not only transformed in the milieu of discourses,
but also in the context of social practices which give the opportunity to acquire experiences and
to perform learning processes in order to optimize risk-constructions as regulative instruments.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Risikoabschätzung; Risikomanagement; Risikoforschung; Technikfolgenabschätzung; Gefährdung; Wahrnehmung; Erkenntnistheorie; Ontologie; Konstruktivismus
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 156-170
Zeitschriftentitel
Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 41 (2009) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2008.09.017
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz., Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen