@article{ref1,
title="Freeride skiing-risk-taking, recognition, and moral boundaries",
journal="Frontiers in sports and active living",
year="2021",
author="Tøstesen, Gustav and Langseth, Tommy",
volume="3",
number="",
pages="e650564-e650564",
abstract="Freeride skiing is an activity that is, or at least can be, quite dangerous. Risk-taking in high-risk sports has usually been understood within a psychological framework. Building on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, this article highlights the social dimension of risk-taking in freeride skiing by scrutinizing values within a freeride culture. A central question in this article is: what kind of actions are given recognition and credibility in freeride skiing? The findings show that there is a clear link between risk-taking and credibility and that risk-taking might be seen as a form of capital. However, risk-taking's link to recognition is not straightforward-it is limited by the skiers' skill level. To further develop our understanding of the social dimension of risk-taking we use Michelle Lamont's theory of symbolic boundaries. By expanding the Bourdieusian understanding of social practice with Lamont's work, we gain insight into how risk-taking is socially regulated by social conventions within a subculture. This means that we in this article describe three social dimensions of risk-taking: (1) The link between risk-taking and recognition, (2) The limits of the risk-recognition nexus, and (3) The moral boundaries of risk-taking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2624-9367",
doi="10.3389/fspor.2021.650564",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.650564"
}