TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Who by Accident? The Social Morphology of Car Accidents
JO  - Risk analysis
A1  - Factor, Roni
A1  - Yair, Gad
A1  - Mahalel, David
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Prior studies in the sociology of accidents have shown that different social groups have different rates of accident involvement. This study extends those studies by implementing Bourdieu's relational perspective of social space to systematically explore the homology between drivers' social characteristics and their involvement in specific types of motor vehicle accident. Using a large database that merges official Israeli road-accident records with socioeconomic data from two censuses, this research maps the social order of road accidents through multiple correspondence analysis. Extending prior studies, the results show that different social groups indeed tend to be involved in motor vehicle accidents of different types and severity. For example, we find that drivers from low socioeconomic backgrounds are overinvolved in severe accidents with fatal outcomes. The new findings reported here shed light on the social regularity of road accidents and expose new facets in the social organization of death.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0272-4332
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01423.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -