Stephen Lyng (ed.)

Edgework

The Sociology of Risk-Taking
Herausgeber: Lyng, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932172
• ISBN-10: 0415932173
• Artikelnr.: 21285588

Autorenporträt

Stephen Lyng is Professor of Sociology at Carthage College, and author (with David D. Franks) of Sociologyand the Real World.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction 1. Edgework and the Risk Taking Experience
Stephen Lyng II. Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework 2. Sociology at the Edge: Social Theory and Voluntary Risk Taking
Stephen Lyng
3. Edgework: A Subjective and Structural Model of Negotiating Boundaries
Dragan Milovanovic
III. The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and Aesthetics
4. The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and Anarchy
Jeff Ferrell
5. 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
7. Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency
William J. Miller
V. Mainstreaming Edgework
8. Adventure Without Risk is like Disneyland
Lori Holyfield
Lillian Jonas
and Anna Zajicek
9. Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents
Charles W. Smith
VI. Historicizing Edgework
10. Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some Notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers
Jonathan Simon
11. On the Edge: Drugs and the Consumption of Risk in Late Modernity
Gerda Reith
VII. Edgework in the Academy
12. Intellectual Risk Taking
Organizations
and Academic Freedom and Tenure
Gideon Sjoberg
13. Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a Bottom Dog
Mark S. Hamm