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The final chapter summarises the major results of the book. The book based on the assumption that understanding and influencing people’s risk-taking require approaching risk-taking from the point of view of the risk-taker and their embeddedness in the social world. In everyday life, people are exposed to decision-making situations or seek such situations to take risks. However, in the social world risk-taking is allocated and attributed unequally: chance-taking is for the resourceful, suffering for the deprived. Mostly, people negotiate meaning and responsibility in their life when taking risks. To change people’s risk-taking means to change the underpinning social conditions and to enable the deprived to take risks without having to burden possible disastrous outcomes.
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Zinn, J.O. (2020). Conclusions and Perspectives. In: Understanding Risk-Taking. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28650-7_9
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