Risks, Identities and the Everyday

Julie Scott Jones, Jayne Raisborough

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317062677
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 and 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Situating Risk in the Everyday
• 2 Contexts of Choice: The Risky Business of Elective Cosmetic Surgery
• 3 ‘Fearing the Worse, Hoping for the Best’: The Discursive Construction of Risk in Pregnancy
• 4 P.E. Kits, Playgrounds and Pain: An Exploration of Children’s Experiences of Risk, Pain and Injury in Sport
• 5 Talking Risks: Constructing Desired Masculinities
• 6 Violence, Risk and Identity: ‘Doing Gender’ or Negotiation of Structural Barriers to Non-violent Alternatives?
• 7 ‘Get with the Programme’: Human Resource Management a Risky Strategy?
• 8 ‘Are We There Yet? Negotiating Transitions and Meaning Crisis in Young Adults
• Index