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Peer reviewedFreudenburg, William R. – Social Forces, 1993
A Weberian perspective suggests that increased perceptions of environmental risk are related to fears of recreancy (institutional failure to fulfill societal responsibilities) rather than to ignorance or irrationality. Regarding nuclear waste facilities, analyses of survey data find that the recreancy perspective explains three times more variance…
Descriptors: Activism, Credibility, Hazardous Materials, Institutional Role
