Edgework : the sociology of risk-taking / edited by Stephen Lyng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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.

English.

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