Overview
Social theorists have claimed that modern life is increasingly risky and uncertain and is profoundly effecting experiences of everyday-life and our sense of self. Drawing upon empirical and theoretical work of young people's risk-taking and leisure, this book examines such claims in detail. Indeed, young people interviewed tell their own stories of balancing the pleasures and anxieties of such everyday risks as drug-taking, prostitution, gang-life, aggressive driving, drinking and sex.
- | Author: W. Mitchell
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 257 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1349721247
- | ISBN-13: 9781349721245
