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This chapter summarises the results and discusses them against the backdrop of sociological theorising. The central shift for the proliferation of at risk constructs in The Times occurred in the 1960s and 1970s during which a new regime was established which connects to the transformation of production, new scientific knowledge and technologies, population health and health services, the scandalisation of ‘hidden’ social practices, the degeneration of the natural environment and others. It supports available sociological hypotheses, helps to specify mainstream insights and makes new conceptual suggestions. It argues that the changes in The Times refer to concrete issues which shape everyday life experience of and exposure to risk. In summary at risk has become part of the cultural knowledge routinely used to approach the world.
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Zinn, J.O. (2020). Social Forces and the Proliferation of At Risk Language. In: The UK ‘at Risk’. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20238-5_9
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