Heroic Efforts PDF
By:Jennifer Lois
Published on 2003-04-01 by NYU Press
Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section Many search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain in search of lost hikers or leave work to search potential avalanche zones for missing skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers in blizzard conditions. They often put their own lives in danger to rescue stranded, hypothermic kayakers and rafters from rivers. Drawing on six years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the emotional subculture of “Peak,” a volunteer mountain-environment search and rescue team. Rescuers were not only confronted by physical dangers, but also by emotional challenges, including both keeping their own emotions in check during crisis situations, and managing the emotions of others, such as those they were rescuing. Lois examines how rescuers constructed meaning in their lives and defined themselves through their heroic work. Heroic Efforts serves as an easy to understand sociological introduction to the ways emotions develop and connect us to our surroundings, as well as to the links between the concept of heroism and other sociological theories such as those on gender stereotypes and edgework.
This Book was ranked at 15 by Google Books for keyword Volunteer Work.
Book ID of Heroic Efforts's Books is cJsUCgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byJennifer Loishave ETAG "izv3du3EQfg"
Book which was published by NYU Press since 2003-04-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780814751848 and ISBN 10 Code is 0814751849
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "233 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download Heroic Efforts PDF Free
Download Heroic Efforts Books Free
Download Heroic Efforts Free
Download Heroic Efforts PDF
Download Heroic Efforts Books
No comments:
Post a Comment