Brannigan and McDougall (1983) Peril and pleasure in the maintenance of a high risk sport: a study of hang-gliding

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Peril and pleasure in the maintenance of a high risk sport: a study of hang-gliding

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Brannigan, A.
	Author:	McDougall, A. A.

JOURNAL:

Journal of Sport Behavior (JSB), 6(1), 37 - 51.

YEAR:

1983

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

Hang-gliding; motivation; risk-taking; observation

DISCIPLINE:

No discipline assigned

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https://secure.sportquest.com/su.cfm?articleno=129785&title=129785

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-343-268 (Last edited on 2002/02/27 18:44:12 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
This work is based on a participant observational study enhanced by interviews with approximately 50 students, instructors and manufactures associated with hang-gliding. The process of main training in a sport/leisure career is studied. The concepts of semi-deviance and tolerable deviance as related to participation in a dangerous leisure activity are shown to be significant. Reports the results of a participant observational study of techniques of danger-neutralization in hang-gliding. Suggests that these techniques account for the maintenance of participation in spite of the negative value typically assigned to reckless behaviour. Argues that other subcultural forces such as peer identification also provide sources of reinforcement of participation.

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