Understanding Risk-Taking

• 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.

  Autorentext

Jens O. Zinn is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Meaning of Risk.- 3. Different Disciplines.- 4. The Notion of Risk-Taking.- 5. Key Characteristics of Risk-Taking.- 6. Negotiating Social Forces.- 7. Responsibilisation: Blaming or Empowering Risk-Taking.- 8. Reasonable Risk-Taking in Everyday Life.- 9. Conclusions and Perspectives.