Scott LashThinkers

A Risk culture is a culture that embraces all kinds of residual and marginal forms of sense-making practices whereas risk society would always entail a sense of institutional domination.

A Risk culture is a reasonable (though not rationalist) reflexive community which is constructed in the context of institutional uncertainty and risk.

Risk culture is different from one culture to the next.

A Risk culture is figuration is not rules but symbols.

A Risk culture is grounded in the open-ended nature of aesthetic judgments.

A Risk culture is grounded in substantive values rather than in procedural norms.

A Risk culture is grounded in the assumptiononof an indeterminate disordering, less coherent ensemble of sensibilities and practices..

A Risk culture is in non-institutional and anti-institutional sociations.

A Risk culture is less a hierarchical ordering than a horizontal disordering.

A Risk culture is less with utilitarian interest than the fostering of the good life.

A Risk culture is made up of fluid quasi-membership which is as likely to be collective as individual.

A Risk culture is marginal, counter-discursive articulations (contra expertise and commerce) less coherent ensemble of sensibilities and practices informed by uncertainty, contingency, complexity, and turbulence.

A Risk culture is value-disordered, horizontally destructured, communally based (whereas risk society is normatively ordered, vertically structred and individually based).

A Risk culture is an entity that displaces 'institutional society'.