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" Edgework : "
edited by Stephen Lyng.
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BL
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1013176
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b767546
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Edgework : : the sociology of risk-taking /\ edited by Stephen Lyng.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) :: illustrations
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0203005295
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: 0415932165
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0415932165
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0415932173
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Risk-taking (Psychology)-- Social aspects.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.
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| Dewey Classification
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302/.12
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BF637.R57E34 2005eb
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| Added Entry
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Lyng, Stephen,1950-
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