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They rely only on themselves and are very reluctant to accept risks imposed by others. Finally, some researchers have identified a fifth group, located between the others. Hermit or autonomous individuals do not belong to one of the specified types but can flexibly refer to each type, as long as it fits their personal aims and needs (see, for example, Rohrmann and Renn 2000: 34–5). The cultural approach has a major impact on risk research. A mainly quantitative perspective refers to risk perception approaches.
In more recent qualitative work, the influence of the functionalistic perspective of Douglas and Wildavsky is supplanted by more descriptive approaches (Tulloch and Lupton 2003). The core assumption of the cultural approach is that the individual’s perception and response to risk can only be understood against the background of their embeddedness in a sociocultural background and identity as a member of a social group, rather than through individual cognition, as is proposed by mainstream economics and cognitive psychologists (Douglas and Wildavsky 1982: 6–7).