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Heroic Efforts - The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,600
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Heroic Efforts - The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers (Hardcover): Jennifer Lois

Heroic Efforts - The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers (Hardcover)

Jennifer Lois

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Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section

"Lois takes readers inside the social world of search and rescue volunteers, offering sociological insight into topics such as gender, emotions, and indentity."
-- "American Journal of Sociology"

""Heroic Efforts" began as a dissertation, but ends as one of the best book on emotions I have read in years. If you want a glimpse into the power of really good ethnography and the reason we need both qualitative and quantitative research, this book will provide you with both enertainment and sagacity."
--"Contemporary Sociology"

"[Lois] examines how rescuers construct meaning in their lives and define themselves through their risky, demanding work."
--"Seattle Times"

Many search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain in search of lost hikers or leave work to search potential avalanche zones for missing skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers in blizzard conditions. They often put their own lives in danger to rescue stranded, hypothermic kayakers and rafters from rivers.

Drawing on six years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the emotional subculture of "Peak," a volunteer mountain-environment search and rescue team. Rescuers were not only confronted by physical dangers, but also by emotional challenges, including both keeping their own emotions in check during crisis situations, and managing the emotions of others, suchas those they were rescuing. Lois examines how rescuers constructed meaning in their lives and defined themselves through their heroic work.

Heroic Efforts serves as an easy to understand sociological introduction to the ways emotions develop and connect us to our surroundings, as well as to the links between the concept of heroism and other sociological theories such as those on gender stereotypes and edgework.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2003
First published: April 2003
Authors: Jennifer Lois
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5183-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Ambulance & rescue services
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LSN: 0-8147-5183-0
Barcode: 9780814751831

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