5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

In everyday life people take and respond to risk and uncertainty in many ways. These might be habitual and routinized practices, cognitive and emotional coping strategies or forms of tacit and experience based knowledge (compare e.g. Zinn 2008, 2016, 2020). This session invites papers which address empirically or conceptually the many different ways how people navigate risk and uncertainty in institutional and material contexts. How different modes of engagement such as trust, intuition, emotions, hope, faith and ideology are combined (or not) with cognitivist, expert approaches. How observable patterns are shaped by situations or biographcial experiences and rooted in socio-structural and global inequalities.