Navigating Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life I

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES019 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)

Language: English

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.
Session Organizer:
Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chair:
Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Oral Presentations
Decision Making in Crisis: The Entrepreneur's Perspective in Contingency Contexts and Its Contribution to Business Death
José Miguel GONZALEZ TOVAR, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico; Alba GONZÁLEZ VEGA, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
The Uncertainties of Work and the Entrepreneurial Spirit of Risk-Taking: Insights Gained from the Biographies of 32 Transnational Bloggers
Yuting LIU, East China Normal University, China
How Managers Deal with Uncertainty in Times of Transformations Towards New Ways of Working
Friedericke HARDERING, FH Muenster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Securing Basic Needs: The Uncertain Politics of Everyday Life As an Unemployed Person
Mark CONNAUGHTON, Roskilde University, Denmark; Aurélie GONNET, Université Paris Cité - Cerlis, France; Maggie MÜLLER, Denmark
Dirty Linen, Stigma and Risk;a Story of the Three Wise Monkeys.
Moses DLAMINI, Swaziland Association of Social Work, Swaziland
Mitigating Cyber Risks: Individual Cybersecurity Practices
Roman SHCHERBAKOV, HSE University, Russian Federation
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