Risk and Acceptability by Mary Douglas

Author:Mary Douglas [Douglas, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference, General, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781135033736
Google: aaNSUIQNqKwC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15T03:43:55+00:00

Plausibility Structures

The subject of risk acceptability can be fruitfully discussed within the concept of legitimacy and by analyzing the processes which legitimate ideas about the world so that they become attested facts. Berger and Luckmann (1966; Berger 1969, 1978) in their seminal works on the social grounding of plausibility have contrasted it with its opposite, implausibility, and have contrasted stereotypes of primitive and modern society. At this point the discussion would be enriched by introducing varieties of legitimation processes, and resultant varieties of world views.

The moral concern guides not just the response to risk but the basic faculty of perception. Compare, for example, the way that professions respond to the threat of scandal. The stronger the professional organization, the more it will insist on doing its own policing and punishing of its members, and the more strictly it will draw professional lines of accreditation and the more terrible the threat of disbarring a member at fault. The profession most deeply concerned with its collective reputation in the world of professions will be more inclined to protect its members and only to publicly criticize exemplary cases of misconduct when it can expel the defaulter.

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