Anxiety in a 'Risk' Society

Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society :looks at the problem of contemporary anxiety from a sociological perspectivehighlights its significance for the ways we make sense of risk and