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Edgework : the sociology of risk-taking /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Abingdon ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- Edgework and the risk taking experience / Stephen Lyng
- II. Theoretical advances in the study of edgework
- Sociology at the Edge : Social Theory and Voluntary Risk Taking / Stephen Lyng
- Edgework : A Subjective and Structural Model of Negotiating Boundaries / Dragan Milovanovic
- III. The Edgework Experience : Anarchy and Aesthetics
- The Only Possible Adventure : Edgework and Anarchy / Jeff Ferrell
- Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm : Resonances and High Hopes / David Courtney
- IV. Group variations in edgework practices : gender, age, and class
- Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework / Jennifer Lois
- Adolescents on the Edge : The Sensual Side of Delinquency / William J. Miller
- V. Mainstreaming edgework
- Adventure Without Risk is like Disneyland / Lori Holyfield, Lillian Jonas, and Anna Zajicek
- Financial Edgework : Trading in Market Currents / Charles W. Smith
- VI. Historicizing edgework
- Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies : Some Notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers / Jonathan Simon
- On the Edge : Drugs and the Consumption of Risk in Late Modernity / Gerda Reith
- VII. Edgework in the academy
- Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure / Gideon Sjoberg
- Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages : Confessions of a Bottom Dog / Mark S. Hamm.