Young people making sense of risk: How meanings of risk are materialized within the social context of everyday life

Young

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-448

  Wall, Erika ^a,b   Olofsson, Anna ^a,b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Individualism; Local attachment; Local detachment; Risk; Rural; Sensemaking; Urban; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149488672     PISSN: 11033088     EISSN: 17413222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/110330880801600405     Document Type: Article

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