ABSTRACT
Introduction: telling stories about night-time car racing in Helsinki In Chapter 3 of this book I talked of the ways in which we might excavate transgression through working closely, in a qualitative way, with those who create criminalised cultures through their everyday lives. Both our words and our subjects’ words, I suggested, become the raw material within which lie both the meaning of social life and the ways in which that meaning was made. When we do social excavation we can reveal the way social sediments have been laid down and solidified through the pressure of pre-determined social structures. Here, then, is our raw material, waiting for us to historicise and analyse it in an effort to attain a more creative understanding of the social intentions buried in everyday life experiences.
