The Self as Risk Taker: A Cultural Theory of Contagion in Relation to AIDS
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 38 (3) , 445-464
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1990.tb00919.x
Abstract
Some people are prepared to take high risks with their lives and those of others. Should this be surprising? Is it more normal to be risk-taking? or risk averse? The argument below will be that the risk taking facet and the risk-averse facet of the personality each emerges in the course of a public debate on freedom and control. It is not psychology but anthropology that shows how the community forces sharp and clear ideas about the self upon its members.Keywords
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