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Understanding Risk-Taking

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This chapter slightly changes the perspective from the people’s experience of risk-taking in everyday life to the broader social forces, which shape risk-taking experiences, such as socio-structural (e.g. social class and gender), organisational, occupational and biographical forces. This also includes the loss of agency when risk-taking is driven by external pressure and the ability to take risks is minimised or lost. Still, in line with the book’s approach, the focus of the chapter remains risk-taking as part of the often-conflictual process of people negotiating their realities, concerns and desires of life.

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Notes

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    This is also reported in a study about soldiers, where soldiers are taught to use anger and aggression to fulfil their task efficiently (Zinn 2012).

  2. 2.

    In this vein, recent work suggests distinguishing positive risk-taking (socially acceptable) and negative risk-taking (harmful and socially unacceptable) but to engage more in the widely neglected domain of positive risk-taking (Duell and Steinberg 2018).

  3. 3.

    The study focussed on adolescence who successfully finished an apprenticeship in one of six different occupations: hairdresser, retail salesperson, car mechanic, industrial mechanic, office worker and bank employee (Heinz et al. 1998; Kelle and Zinn 1998).

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    [Numbers in squared brackets stand for the line in the interview transcript].

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Zinn, J.O. (2020). Negotiating Social Forces. In: Understanding Risk-Taking. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28650-7_6

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