Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-takingWhat 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. |
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Contents
Sociology at the Edge Social Theory and Voluntary Risk Taking | 17 |
Edgework A Subjective and Structural Model of Negotiating Boundaries | 51 |
The Edgework Experience Anarchy and Aesthetics | 73 |
The Only Possible Adventure Edgework and Anarchy | 75 |
Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm Resonances and High Hopes | 89 |
Group Variations in Edgework Practices Gender Age and Class | 115 |
Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework | 117 |
Adolescents on the Edge The Sensual Side of Delinquency | 153 |
Financial Edgework Trading in Market Currents | 187 |
Historicizing Edgework | 201 |
Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies Some Notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers | 203 |
On the Edge Drugs and the Consumption of Risk in Late Modernity | 227 |
Edgework in the Academy | 245 |
Intellectual Risk Taking Organizations and Academic Freedom and Tenure | 247 |
Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages Confessions of a Bottom Dog | 273 |
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| Title | Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-taking |
| Editor | Stephen Lyng |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0415932165, 9780415932165 |
| Length | 297 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Sociology / General |
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