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This research aims to determine the characteristics of the perception of environmental risks using the case of a salt deposit in the Kaliningrad region as an example. To achieve this aim, the author analyzed the social and cultural determinants of the population. The grid-group analysis was used as a sup­porting technique for the identification ...

.... 15. Яницкий О. Н. Социология риска: ключевые идеи // Мир России. 2003. № 1. C. 3—35. Krishtal M. I. sociology, Kaliningrad region, environmental awareness, environ­mental problems, environmental risks, perception of environmental risks 87-97

This article analyses images of environmental risks using the village of Nivenskoe as an example. Relevance of the research is caused by the fact that modern control systems ... ... are based on risk assessment methods. Since media play a most significant role in the formation of public opinion and direct perception of risks in public space, communication of risks can be an instrument of latent manipulation with public opinion. The ...

The study focuses on the empirical test of the grid/group model applied to the actual perception of the environmental risks by the local community (the case of the potassium mine development in the village of Nivenskoe, the Kali­ningrad region). It tests to what extent the structure of the theoretically con­structed cultural types (hierarchist, egalitarian, individualist,...

This article discusses the results of a survey underlying a reconstruction of ideas about tact and tactlessness in Russian ... ... re­sults are divided into the following thematic blocks corresponding to communication risk zones: age, family and marriage, religion and sex. The quantitative findings provide... ... exhibit ambiguity in assessments, high­ligh­ting the variability of contemporary perceptions regarding tact and tactlessness, thereby ref­lecting shifts in social norms. Altman, I., 1975. The environment and social behavior. Privacy, personal space, crow­ding. New York. Amirov...