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Essay heading: YOUNG MALES TAKE MORE VOLUNTARY RISKS THAN ANY OTHER SOCIAL GROUP
 
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Using this type of definition for voluntary risk-taking Lyng (1990) discovered that most of the participants in this type of risk taking or ?edgework' thought that in order to avoid serious injury or death one had to have the inherent ?right stuff' in order to maintain absolute control of the chaotic situation...
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However, Lyng (1990) criticises this perspective fro not being inclusive of the pleasures sought in voluntary risk-taking. His case study showed that people undertaking voluntary risks placed a higher value on the experience of risk". Some sociological accounts are more careful when generalising about voluntary risk-taking and are more inclined to say that not everyone seeks the pleasures identified by Lyng and other sociologists...
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