SOCS2100 Lecture 11: SOCS2100 Week 11 Lecture
29 May 2018
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SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
May 23, 2018
WEEK 11
Policy Governance and Compliance
We are a risk-averse society.
- Both positive and negative thing
- We do something, theres an unknown outcome
- We do things we know because we want to avoid bad outcomes
- Risk is constructed by unknowns of decisions
- People are more risk averse nowadays (ex. stranger danger, climbing trees)
Compliance
- Complying to something – doing what youre told
- Government creates policies and regulations that organisations must do
Discourses of Risk
1. Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture, 1982
a. Shift towards risk awareness caused by individualist values
b. Growing awareness
2. Ulrich Beck, Risk Society, 1992 (orig German 1986)
a. German sociologist
b. Coined term risk society
c. Talked about how globalization creates risk concerning us all – climate
change, pollution
3. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self Identity
a. Leading sociologists in the world, guru of sociology
b. Scientific and insurance perspective
c. Catastrophic things in nature have profound effect on how we identify
ourselves as people
d. Increased knowledge and understanding of issues (climate change,
plastics, weather, diseases, terrorists, power relationships) leads to
increased awareness of potential risks
e. Risk communication and risk aversion processes
A fundamental shift in the time is envisaged and experienced: Rather than the present
being determined by lessons learned from the past, the experience of the present is
determined by perceived future risk.
Pre-Modernism – God as Creator, Arbitor
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Document Summary
We do something, there(cid:1685)s an unknown outcome. We do things we know because we want to avoid bad outcomes. Risk is constructed by unknowns of decisions. People are more risk averse nowadays (ex. stranger danger, climbing trees) Complying to something doing what you(cid:1685)re told. Government creates policies and regulations that organisations must do. A fundamental shift in the time is envisaged and experienced: rather than the present being determined by lessons learned from the past, the experience of the present is determined by perceived future risk. Nothing much except the food they eat, the water. Post wwii science as fallible they drink, the air they breathe, the land they live on, and the energy they use. In the amazingly short space of fifteen to twenty years, confidence about the physical world has turned to doubt. Once the source of safety, science and technology has become the source of all risk. (cid:1689) douglas & wildavsky 1982:10.
