Is Concern about Safety Changing ?

The article seeks to demonstrate that the sudden rise in preoccupations with security and law and order at the time of the 2002 elections in France cannot be explained solely by circumstantial factors but reflects instead a profound transformation in these concerns. After the relevance and limitat...

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Главные авторы: Robert, Philippe, Pottier, Marie-Lys
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Язык:Français
Опубликовано: 2006
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spelling cairn-RFS_475_0035RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2006-5-page-35?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.475.0035 Is Concern about Safety Changing ? Robert, PhilippePottier, Marie-Lys2006 fre Revue française de sociologie | 47 | 5 | 2006-12-01 | p. 35-63 | 0035-2969 RFS_4751 The article seeks to demonstrate that the sudden rise in preoccupations with security and law and order at the time of the 2002 elections in France cannot be explained solely by circumstantial factors but reflects instead a profound transformation in these concerns. After the relevance and limitations of an analysis in purely circumstantial terms is shown, the main demonstration is constructed around the distinction that has been developed between fear and preoccupation. Data from a survey conducted with near-annual regularity from 1977 to 2002 are then used to demonstrate how security preoccupations have become repatterned since the mid-nineties in such a way that an autonomous version of this type of concern is now to be found in social groups previously reluctant to adopt an attitude of concern about security. The last part of the article discusses the import of the results obtained: How should they be interpreted, and how can they be expected to affect security policy?Cairn free access
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description The article seeks to demonstrate that the sudden rise in preoccupations with security and law and order at the time of the 2002 elections in France cannot be explained solely by circumstantial factors but reflects instead a profound transformation in these concerns. After the relevance and limitations of an analysis in purely circumstantial terms is shown, the main demonstration is constructed around the distinction that has been developed between fear and preoccupation. Data from a survey conducted with near-annual regularity from 1977 to 2002 are then used to demonstrate how security preoccupations have become repatterned since the mid-nineties in such a way that an autonomous version of this type of concern is now to be found in social groups previously reluctant to adopt an attitude of concern about security. The last part of the article discusses the import of the results obtained: How should they be interpreted, and how can they be expected to affect security policy?
author Robert, Philippe
Pottier, Marie-Lys
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Pottier, Marie-Lys
Is Concern about Safety Changing ?
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Pottier, Marie-Lys
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title Is Concern about Safety Changing ?
title_short Is Concern about Safety Changing ?
title_full Is Concern about Safety Changing ?
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title_full_unstemmed Is Concern about Safety Changing ?
title_sort is concern about safety changing ?
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