Edgework: The Sociology of Risk Taking

Part 1: Introduction 1. Edgework and the Risk Taking Experience Stephen Lyng Part 2: Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework 2. Sociology at the Edge: Social theory and voluntary risk taking Stephen Lyng 3. Edgework: A subjective and structural model of negotiating boundaries Dragan Milovanic Part 3: The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and aesthetics 4. The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and anarchy Jeff Ferrell 5. Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes David Courtney Part 4: Group Variations in Edgework Practices: Gender, age and class 6. Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework Jennifer Lois 7. Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency William J. Miller Part 5: Mainstreaming Edgework 8. Adventure Without Risk is Like Disneyland Lori Holyfield, Lillian Jonas and Anna Zajicek 9. Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents Charles W. Smith Part 6: Historicizing Edgework 10. Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian lawyers and mountaineers Jonathan Simon 11. On the Edge: Drugs and the consumption of risk in late modernity Gerda Reith Part 7: Edgework in the Academy 12. Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure Gideon Sjoberg 13. Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a bottom dog Mark S. Hamm