Risks, Identities and the Everyday

Name: Risks, Identities and the Everyday
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780754648611
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By Julie Scott Jones and Jayne Raisborough

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Risks, Identities and the Everyday explores the lived experience of everyday risks from an individual perspective, moving beyond traditional macro-level analyses. Contributors examine risk perceptions, risk-taking, and risk assessment in varied contexts such as plastic surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing, and independent travel. The book shifts focus from abstract theories to how risk materialises in real social interactions, challenging notions of the rational self and highlighting the socio-cultural forces that define some risks as acceptable and necessary.
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Suitable for students and academics in sociology, education, science and technology studies, and health disciplines interested in understanding everyday risks and identity construction.

Explains risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment dominate our everyday lives and explores it in a variety of settings. This book interrogates the rational self at the heart of social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some risks as acceptable.

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Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks— a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment increasingly dominate our everyday lives. They explore it in a variety of settings not previously associated with risk theory, including plastic surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing, and independent travel.

The volume moves risk away from abstract theorising about what people may or may not fear about risks, to focus on how it actually materialises and operates in everyday 'real' social interactions and contexts. It also interrogates the rational self at the heart of macro social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some risks as acceptable, appropriate, and necessary.

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Praised as a valuable addition to risk studies, the book offers thoughtful empirical insights into everyday risk situations and their constructed nature. It reveals how risk-discourses sustain institutional power and provides explanations for individual perceptions and reactions to risk. Recommended for undergraduates and graduates, it suits courses in sociology, science and technology studies, and health-related fields.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780754648611

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 November 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 148

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About the Author

Dr Julie Scott Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Dr Jayne Raisborough is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, UK. Julie Scott Jones, Jayne Raisborough, Dawn S. Jones, Lara Killick, David Merryweather, Wendy Laverick, Sal Watt.