Risks, responsibility and normative dimension: prospects of sociological study

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In this paper we make an attempt to reconstruct the risk-responsibility link departing from the concept of risk, assuming that the interpretation of this concept – as a danger, a probable event or a rational decision – will inevitably impact on the conceptualization of the normative dimension and, in particular, understanding the specificity of responsibility. We also imply that responsibility not only refers to “authorship” of an event, i.e. the causal contribution of some subject, but also refers to the action’s compliance to certain ethical principles, morals. Elicitation of the normative dimension in existing risk-responsibility link interpretations helps us to identify “blind spots”, i.e. ways for further theoretical elaboration of this link.