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