Understanding Risk-Taking
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Beschreibung
This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve social regulation.
Conceptually, the book goes beyond common approaches which problematise socially undesirable risk-taking, or highlight the alluring character of risk-taking. Instead, it follows a broadly interpretivist approach and engages in examining motives, control, routinisation, reflexivity, skills, resources, the role of identity in risk-taking and how these are rooted in and framed by different social forces.
Zinn draws on qualitative studies from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, pragmatism, feminism, class analysis, theory of practice and discourse analysis among others, to outline key distinctionsand concepts central to the understanding of risk-taking.
It will be a key resource for everyone who is concerned with the understanding and management of risk-taking in all kinds of social domains, such as immigration, youth, leisure sports, crime, health, finance, and social policy.
- Advances understanding of the forces which influence and drive risk-taking and how risk-taking is embedded in broader social contexts- Positions a sociological approach in the context of interdisciplinary risk studies and reviews insights of a large number of qualitative studies- Complements sociological approaches to risk which often remain on the societal macro level with an interpretivist perspective.
Advances understanding of the forces which influence and drive risk-taking and how risk-taking is embedded in broader social contexts Positions a sociological approach in the context of interdisciplinary risk studies and reviews insights of a large number of qualitative studies Complements sociological approaches to risk which often remain on the societal macro level with an interpretivist perspective
Autor*in
Jens O. Zinn
Themen in »Understanding Risk-Taking«
Interpretative research Refexivity Identity Instrumental rationality Voluntary risk taking health studies social work migration