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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk

Publication date: 31.12.2020

Issues in Social Work, 2020, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 269 - 282

https://doi.org/10.4467/24496138ZPS.20.031.13086

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Michał Wanke
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0413-9838 Orcid
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Magdalena Piejko-Płonka
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3714-605X Orcid
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Marcin Deutschmann
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-6134 Orcid
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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk

Abstract

Social defining of the risk behaviors is rooted in a diverse, multidimensional world of norms, values, rituals and discourses. Including social contexts of engaging in the risk behaviors and production of knowledge about them allowed us to go beyond standard cause-and-effect descriptions and examine these actions as an essential element of everyday practices and rituals of youth. The aim of this paper was to analyze the risk behaviors of youth in the framework of sociological categories of risk, reflexivity and interactional order. The paper is based on the results of the qualitative study conducted within the project “Problem Behaviors of Youth – Study in the Opole Region 2019–2020,” that attempted to capture the ways of defining and explaining the risk behaviors by the school youth, teachers and counselors. Such a sociological perspective bridges the gap in the prevention scholarship connected to insufficient attention paid to social ways of defining and meaning making connected to the risk behaviors of youth.

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Information: Issues in Social Work, 2020, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 269 - 282

Article type: Original article

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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk

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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0413-9838

Michał Wanke
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0413-9838 Orcid
All publications →

University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3714-605X

Magdalena Piejko-Płonka
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3714-605X Orcid
All publications →

University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-6134

Marcin Deutschmann
University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-6134 Orcid
All publications →

University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland

Published at: 31.12.2020

Article status: Open

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Michał Wanke (Author) - 33%
Magdalena Piejko-Płonka (Author) - 33%
Marcin Deutschmann (Author) - 34%

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