Edgework [electronic resource] : the sociology of risk-taking / edited by Stephen Lyng.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (314 p.)

Subjects:

Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
Psychology -- Social aspects.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

This book will introduce the reader to the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out boundaries between legal and criminal behavior.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Edgework and the Risk-Taking Experience; Sociology at the Edge: Social Theory and Voluntary Risk Taking; Edgework: A Subjective and Structural Model of Negotiating Boundaries; The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and Anarchy; Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes; Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework; Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency; Adventure Without Risk Is Like Disneyland; Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents
Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some Notes on Victorian Lawyers and MountaineersOn the Edge: Drugs and the Consumption of Risk in Late Modernity; Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure; Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a Bottom Dog; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Lyng, Stephen, 1950-

ISBN:

1-135-95461-5
1-280-09636-5
0-203-00529-5

OCLC:

475914085

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