L’acceptation du danger par les navigateurs hauturiers
The radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularly underlined by those observing our sporting contemporaneity. Various explanations are given: thrill seeking, the call of adventure, “deroutinization” of daily life, identity assertion, etc. Using the case of sailing, we i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Catholique de Louvain
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/301 |
| Summary: | The radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularly underlined by those observing our sporting contemporaneity. Various explanations are given: thrill seeking, the call of adventure, “deroutinization” of daily life, identity assertion, etc. Using the case of sailing, we intend to analyze the reasons driving sailors to accept confrontation with identified dangers. The sociological literature illustrates six ways of theoretically constructing involvement in a dangerous sporting practice. We propose interconnecting these theoretical constructions to develop a wider vision of the reasons driving sailors to the high seas. 22 practitioners were interviewed. These talks revealed multifaceted elements of justification for this occasional exposure to danger. Complementary relationships between paradigms finally appear, proving not only that claims to explanatory monopoly lead to impasses, but also that opening to several structures of intelligibility enriches the heuristic range of all of them. |
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| ISSN: | 1782-1592 2033-7485 |