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2 This suggests dividing the three perspectives from a common premise: social risks take place in a determined sociocultural, political and historical context, thus forming part of a concept more relative than universal (Zinn and Taylor Gooby 2006). Third, in the analysis proposed here, risks are embedded in social contexts where stratification is insufficient to account for the mechanisms of social reproduction of contemporary societies. With these considerations in mind, the structure of the present text is as follows.