Youth, Risk, Routine: A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society) - Hardcover

Book 14 of 23: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

Bengtsson, Tea Torbenfeldt; Ravn, Signe

 
9781138217386: Youth, Risk, Routine: A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)
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ISBN 10: 1138217387 ISBN 13: 9781138217386
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Young people’s lives continue to be the topic of public scrutiny and recurring ‘moral panics’. Smoking cannabis, speeding, and engaging in street-level fights are depicted as activities based on ‘poor choices’ or simple hedonism, putting young people’s futures at risk. Based on comprehensive, qualitative research with young people in Denmark, this book illustrates how such individualised accounts miss out on the inherently social character of risk-taking activities.

Youth, Risk, Routine introduces a new approach to risk-taking activities as being an integral and routinised part of young people’s everyday life. By applying social theories of practice, this insightful volume presents a framework for understanding the routinised dimensions of young people’s engagement in risk-taking and how this is embedded in, intertwined with, and held in place by other everyday practices. Indeed, through extensive empirical analyses of the rich material at hand, the authors explore how routinisation, coordination, embodiment, and social context are central aspects for understanding how, why, and when young people engage in risk-taking practices.

Youth, Risk, Routine will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, criminology, and social work as well as wider social science audiences, particularly those interested in exploring the empirical potential of social theories of practice.

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About the Author

Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson is a senior researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark.

Signe Ravn is a lecturer in sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138217387
ISBN 13 
9781138217386
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
154

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