Edgework : the sociology of risk taking

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Lyng, Stephen, 1950-

ISBN:

9780415932172

9780203005293

Yayım Bilgisi:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Fiziksel Tanım:

xv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Edgework and the risk taking experience -- Theoretical advances in the study of edgework -- The edgework experience : anarchy and aesthetics -- Group variations in edgework practices : gender, age, and class -- Mainstreaming edgework -- Historicizing edgework -- Edgework in the academy.

Konu Terimleri:

Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects.

Risk taking (psychology) -- Sosyal açıdan.

Added Author:

Lyng, Stephen, 1950-

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What do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.

Author Notes

Stephen Lyng is Professor of Sociology at Carthage College

Stephen LyngStephen LyngDragan MilovanovicJeff FerrellDavid CourtneyJennifer LoisWilliam J. MillerLori Holyfield and Lillian Jonas and Anna ZajicekCharles W. SmithJonathan SimonGerda ReithGideon SjobergMark S. Hamm

I Introduction: Edgework and the Risk-Taking Experience	p. 3
II Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework
1 Sociology at the Edge: Social Theory and Voluntary Risk Taking	p. 17
2 Edgework: A Subjective and Structural Model of Negotiating Boundaries	p. 51
III The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and Aesthetics
3 The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and Anarchy	p. 75
4 Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes	p. 89
IV Group Variations in Edgework Practices: Gender, Age, and Class
5 Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework	p. 117
6 Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency	p. 153
V Mainstreaming Edgework
7 Adventure Without Risk Is Like Disneyland	p. 173
8 Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents	p. 187
VI Historicizing Edgework
9 Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some Notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers	p. 203
10 On the Edge: Drugs and the Consumption of Risk in Late Modernity	p. 227
VII Edgework in the Academy
11 Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure	p. 247
12 Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a Bottom Dog	p. 273
Index	p. 293

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