Personal Strategies to Risk Prevention and Reacting

The topic of risks is particularly relevant in today's dynamic society, in which processes and phenomena are closely interconnected on a wide scale, and changes in one or other links of the chain of social interactions give rise to numerous subsequent effects. The study of risks is particularly important for social practice due to the need to develop effective strategies for prevention and minimizing negative consequences.The most generally formulated research task that the present work sets itself is to highlight the main social risks in today's Bulgarian society, to establish how vulnerability to them is assessed, what are the personal strategies for prevention and reaction, what are the expectations towards the state and how people evaluate its relevant actions.The work presents and analyzes the results of two empirical sociological studies: a nationally representative one of the population over 18 and a study among representatives of small businesses. In the focus of attention are risks to physical security and material well-being. The main lines of analysis are risk perception, assessment, personal reaction strategies, expectations of state actions, evaluation of these actions.The obtained results are valuable as presenting the picture of the issues of interest to us at a time of increased dynamics and uncertainty, saturated with intense risks of different origin and durability.