Voluntary Risk Taking and Edgework

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

OB 309 (Faculty of Economics)

TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizer:

Steven LYNG, Carthage College, USA

Chair:

Steven LYNG, Carthage College, USA

232.1

Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of voluntary risk taking (Oral Presentation)
Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia

232.2

Corps-machines dans le jeu du vertige-contrôle: Les jeunes et les courses de voitures et des motos (Oral Presentation)
Leila JEOLAS, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil; Hagen KORDES, Münster Universität, Germany

232.3

The IT managers' voluntary risk taking and the new capitalism's justificatory system (Oral Presentation)
Thays MOSSI, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

232.4

Minorities, high-risk behavior, and social resistance (Oral Presentation)
Roni FACTOR, University of Haifa, Israel

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