Assignment:
Answer two questions:
1. Discuss Lyng's concept of edgework (pp. 220-226), broken down into the following parts: edgework activities; edgework skills; edgework sensations.
2. What do you think is the most important contribution of edgework as a model of voluntary risk-taking?
3. Rajah expands the concept of edgework as risk-taking into the area of resistance to violence and control in the intimate relationship. Evaluate the success of this theoretical expansion regarding risk thresholds and the rewards of resistance as well as examples of edgework resistance (pp. 234-240).
4. According to Brent the activity of parkour (i.e., free-running)is at once an emerging popular culture component and also a deviant label. Critique the apparent conflict of this emerging activity through the related concepts of resistance and edgework. Do you think parkour will become more or less popular in the near future?
2 to 3 pages
Readings:
Understanding Deviance
By Tammy L. Anderson