International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The article gives a definition of economic risk through such categories as "vagueness" and "economic behave our"; shows its role in the structure of economic behaviour, picks up essential peculiarities and the types of risks in major phases of reproductive cycle (distributive, productive, exchanging, consumption). The article shows the major mechanisms and the ways of optimizing economic risks, as well as those connected with professional activity of practical sociologist.