Semántica social del riesgouna aproximación cualitativa

  1. Ramos Torre, Ramón 1
  2. Javier Callejo Gallego 2
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02msb5n36

Revista:
Política y sociedad

ISSN: 1130-8001,  1988-3129

Año de publicación: 2018

Título del ejemplar: Historia y ciencias sociales: nuevas perspectivas de análisis

Volumen: 55

Número: 1

Páginas: 235-256

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5209/POSO.54062 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Política y sociedad

Resumen

This paper studies the social semantics of risk. After summing up the modern history of risk it proposes that in the academic literature appears as a heterogeneous concept in which at least four different dimensions are typically considered (temporal, ontological, cognitive and practical). Research on risk social semantics is not yet enough developed. To progress in this field, this paper shows the results of a qualitative research by means of discussion groups. The discursive material provided by the research was subjected to a structural analysis. The main results are as follows: the social concept of risk contrasts risk and safety, and highlights, with different dramatism, its ambivalence (damage vs. opportunity). The distinctions that allow to qualify and assess the risks are spatial-temporal (proximity vs. distance), ontological (real vs. constructible), practical (control vs. lack of control) and cognitive (uncertainty vs. probability).

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