Shane Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5546444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Edgework, Fun, and Identification in a Recreational Subculture
The sociological study of risk-taking behavior is a relatively recent development. Lyng (1990) and others have developed the field of edgework, or the “sociology of risk-taking.” In this study, we examine a group of edgeworkers to understand the role of fun and identity in a group of BMX “freestyle” bicycle riders and conclude that these riders reject rational reasons, in the sense of the term envisioned by Weber, for riding in favor of choosing …
Information Gained From Linking Seer Cancer Registry Data to State-Level Hospital Discharge Abstracts
OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to link patients from the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Registry to their respective inpatient discharge abstracts from an Iowa Health Care Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)-formatted database and evaluate whether this linkage provides information related to cancer treatment variation. METHODS: Computer algorithms linked patients from the Iowa SEER Registry to discharge abstracts using 5 variab…
Edgework, Fun, and Identification in a Recreational Subculture
The sociological study of risk-taking behavior is a relatively recent development. Lyng (1990) and others have developed the field of edgework, or the “sociology of risk-taking.” In this study, we examine a group of edgeworkers to understand the role of fun and identity in a group of BMX “freestyle” bicycle riders and conclude that these riders reject rational reasons, in the sense of the term envisioned by Weber, for riding in favor of choosing …
Information Gained From Linking Seer Cancer Registry Data to State-Level Hospital Discharge Abstracts
OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to link patients from the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Registry to their respective inpatient discharge abstracts from an Iowa Health Care Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)-formatted database and evaluate whether this linkage provides information related to cancer treatment variation. METHODS: Computer algorithms linked patients from the Iowa SEER Registry to discharge abstracts using 5 variab…
Edgework, Fun, and Identification in a Recreational Subculture
The sociological study of risk-taking behavior is a relatively recent development. Lyng (1990) and others have developed the field of edgework, or the “sociology of risk-taking.” In this study, we examine a group of edgeworkers to understand the role of fun and identity in a group of BMX “freestyle” bicycle riders and conclude that these riders reject rational reasons, in the sense of the term envisioned by Weber, for riding in favor of choosing …
Political science (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Cancer (1 work) · Cancer registry (1 work) · Collective identity (1 work) · Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · Gerontology (1 work) · Gerontology (1 work)