ERP 290-8
Environmental Sociology

Required

Recommended

Deitz, Thomas, R. Scott Frey and Eugene Rosa. "Risk, Technology, and Society," in Riley E. Dunlap and William Michelson, eds., Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, in press (RR)

Freudenburg, William R. 1993. "Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions," Social Forces 71(4):909-32 (RR)

O’Neill, Kate. 1997. "Regulations as Arbiters of Risk: Great Britain, Germany, and the Hazardous Waste Trade in Western Europe," International Studies Quarterly 41(4): 687-717 (RR)

Perrow, Normal Accidents, 2^nd ed., afterword (pp. 353-387).

Tierney, K. 1999. "Toward a Critical Sociology of Risk," Sociological Forum 14(2):215-242 (RR)

Other

Baugher, John E. and J. Timmons Roberts. 1999. "Perceptions and Worry about Hazards at Work: Unions, Contract Maintenance, and Job Control in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry," Industrial Relations, forthcoming

Beck, Ulrich. 1992. "From Industrial Society to the Risk Society," Theory, Culture & Society 9:97-123. Reprinted in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Beck, Risk Society (V)

Cohen, ed., Risk in the Modern Age

Erikson, Everything in Its Path (V)

Freudenburg, William R. 1988. "Perceived Risk, Real Risk," Science 242 (Oct. 7):44-49 (RR)

Gottlieb, Reducing Toxics

Irwin, Alan, "Risk, the Environment, and Environmental Knowledges," ch. 15 (pp. 218-226) in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Johnson and Covello, eds., The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk

Reich, M. Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters

Roberts, J. Timmons. 1997. "Negotiating Both Sides of the Plant Gate: Hazardous Facility Workers and Community Responses to Hazards." Current Sociology 45(3): 157-177 (RR)

Tarr, "Industrial Wastes as Hazards," Part V (pp. 335-411) in Search for the Ultimate Sink (V)

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