Living on the Edge: The Appeal of Risk Sports for the Professional Middle Class

By R. Fletcher. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. R. Schweitzer
2. E. Brymer

In Social Psychology

1. R. Schweitzer
2. E. Brymer
3. R. Fletcher

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. Schweitzer
2. E. Brymer
3. R. Fletcher

Citations in the corpus

• The search for freedom in extreme sports : a phenomenological exploration (2013, background): “…propose that personality traits (e.g., Breivik, 1996; Hunt, 1996; Self et al., 2007), socialization processes (e.g., Allman et al., 2009; Fletcher, 2008; Laurendeau, 2008), and previous experiences work to compel a participant to put his or her life at risk through extreme sports…”
• Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion (2011, background): “Members of the new middle class are thus motivated to attempt to escape these conditions through leisure activities in which qualities seen as lacking in everyday work life can be pursued (Lyng 1990; MacCannell 1999; Fletcher 2008).”