RISK AND RECREANCY - WEBER, THE DIVISION-OF-LABOR, AND THE RATIONALITY OF RISK PERCEPTIONS
RISK AND RECREANCY - WEBER, THE DIVISION-OF-LABOR, AND THE RATIONALITY OF RISK PERCEPTIONS
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DOI：
10.2307/2580124
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发表时间：
1993-06-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
FREUDENBURG, WR
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作者：
FREUDENBURG, WR
迄今为止，大多数对风险感知的分析都集中在个体感知者的特征上，但考虑到自工业革命早期以来发生的社会变化，需要更多地关注负责风险管理的机构。一个多世纪以来，死亡风险一直在显著下降，但在此期间，社会相互依存的程度急剧增加，因此有可能出现娱乐行为——机构行为者未能以必要的精力履行其责任，以获得他们所享有的社会信任。以处理核废料的设施为例，对调查数据的分析发现，娱乐角度解释的关注程度差异大约是社会人口和意识形态变量总和的三倍。在涉及履行专门职责的潜在问题的其他情况下，娱乐概念也可能具有重要的适用性。
To date, most analyses of risk perceptions have focused on the characteristics of individual perceivers, but given the societal changes that have occurred since the early days of the industrial revolution, there is need for greater attention to the institutions that are responsible for risk management. Risks of death have been dropping significantly for more than a century, but during that time, there has been a dramatic growth of societal interdependence and hence of the potential for recreancy - the failure of institutional actors to carry out their responsibilities with the degree of vigor necessary to merit the societal trust they enjoy. In the case of facilities for handling nuclear waste, analyses of survey data find that the recreancy perspective explains roughly three times as much variance in levels of concern as do sociodemographic and ideological variables combined. The recreancy concept may also have significant applicability in other contexts involving the potentially problematic performance of specialized responsibilities.