Edgework, Risk, and Uncertainty

Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty: An Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 106-137

  Lyng, Stephen ^a  

^a CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptualizing foreground of edgework activities; Dangers facing us today emerging as unanticipated consequences of economic and scientific progress; Development of edgework concept; Edgework, risk, and uncertainty; Second criticism of edgework idea involving potential bias in concept relating to gender, race, and class differences; Structural context of voluntary risk taking; Theorizing edgework; Voluntary risk taking in late modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887497421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301489.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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