In Good Company
Risk, Security and Choice in Young People'S Drug Decisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3208790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Pilkington (0000-0002-4041-430X, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 373-392 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00710.x |
| OpenAlex | W2098937469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article draws on original empirical research with young people to question the degree to which 'individualisation of risk', as developed in the work of Beck and Giddens, adequately explains the risks young people bear and take. It draws on alternative understandings and critiques of 'risk' not to refute the notion of the reflexive individual upon which 'individualisation of risk' is based but to re-read that reflexivity in a more hermeneutic way. It explores specific risk-laden moments - young people's drug use decisions - in their natural social and cultural context of the friendship group. Studying these decisions in context, it suggests, reveals the meaning of 'risk' to be not given, but constructed through group discussion, disagreement and consensus and decisions taken to be rooted in emotional relations of trust, mutual accountability and common security. The article concludes that 'the individualisation of risk' fails to take adequate account of the significance of inter-subjectivity in risk-decisions. It argues also that addressing the theoretical overemphasis on the individual bearer of risk requires not only further empirical testing of the theory but appropriate methodological reflection
Accountability · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Positive economics · Reflexivity · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Child Abuse and Trauma · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
‘Men are leavers alone and women are worriers’
Sounds of a ‘Rotting City’
Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people
“More human”
The social construction of risk by young people
Because it’s fun’
Desistance from crime
Risky behaviour
Cannabis, youth and social identity
Drug normalisation and Australian youth
Structure of meaning and sense‐making of risk
Visualizing risk
Young People, Alcohol and Norms
Back then” and “nowadays
The ‘healthy self’ and ‘risky’ young Other
Psychometric evaluation of an abbreviated version of the intragroup marginalization inventory
Disturbing the ‘spoiled-unspoiled’ binary
Constructions of Risk and Harm in Online Discussions of Ketamine Use
Addiction and sociality
Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance”
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer
The Liminal Leisure of Disadvantaged Young People in the UK Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social Stratification, Living Conditions and the White Male Effect in Sweden
Ethnographies of youth drug use in Asia
Beyond ‘peer pressure’
Self-governance, control and loss of control amongst drink-drivers
It's just a social thing’
The mutual extraction industry
Questioning the method and utility of ranking drug harms in drug policy
Harm Reduction From Below
You Can’t Just Give Your Best Mate a Massive Hug Every Day”
The Best Drivers in the World
I just want to be normal
From Generation to Generation
Science and scepticism
Alcohol and the Constitution of Friendship for Young Adults
The Body in Consumer Culture
Modernity and self-identity
Risk, calculable and incalculable
Foucault, Health and Medicine
Beyond ‘peer pressure’
Contextualizing Risk and Danger
Adolescents' Risk Activities, Risk Hierarchies and the Influence of Religiosity
Young People's Leisure and Risk-Taking Behaviours
Risk‐taking Behaviour among German Adolescents
Growing Up as Risky Business? Risks, Surveillance and the Institutionalized Mistrust of Youth
Youth, community life and well-being in rural areas of Siberia
For us it is normal’
Addicts' narratives of recovery from drug use
Risk society
Situational factors influencing drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange in Togliatti City, Russian Federation
Drug users' sexual relationships and the social organisation of risk
Risk perception, risk taking and risk management among intravenous drug users
Putting at risk what we know
The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users
Social capital and substance use among Swedish adolescents-an explorative study
Understanding risk behaviours
Networks, resources and risk among women who use drugs
Risking risk
Socio-economic differences in health risk behavior in adolescence
Norms, social networks, and HIV-related risk behaviors among urban disadvantaged drug users
Pleasure, Freedom and Drugs
Risk is Part of Your Life
Beck's Sociology of Risk
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |