Document Type
Article
Comments
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers, 92 Yale Law Journal 888 (1983)
Abstract
Risk and Culture by anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist
Aaron Wildavsky proves that a whole is sometimes less than some of
its parts. The book consists of two interwoven but separable parts: (1) an
abstract theory of the relationship between risk and culture; and (2) an
application of the theory to explain "the sudden, widespread, across-theboard
concern about environmental pollution and personal contamination
that has arisen in the Western world in general and with particular force
in the United States" (a phenomenon that I will call "environmentalism").
Date of Authorship for this Version
1983
Recommended Citation
Elliott, E. Donald, "Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers" (1983). Faculty Scholarship Series. 2192.
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2192