Accidentology: Towards a Sociology of Accidents and Disasters

While the unintended consequences of social action have exercised the sociological imagination since the discipline’s inception, sociology is yet to fully develop a systematic study of accidents and disasters. Leading figures in the field criticise current work on accidents for being piecemeal and...

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Main Author: Steve Matthewman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hipatia Press 2012-11-01
Series:RIMCIS
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Online Access:https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/rimcis/article/view/405