ABSTRACT
In this chapter we conclude by arguing for a new approach to understanding young people’s risk-taking practices within the sociology of youth. Our key finding in this book is that for young people who engage in risk-taking practices these are often an integral and routinised part of their everyday life. This does not mean that these practices do not entail risks but that the perceptions of and experiences with risk-taking are much more complex, and often centre on social risks. By shifting focus to how young people routinise, synchronise, and organise risk-taking practices in their everyday lives we have generated novel insights into the actual engagement of young people in different types of risk-taking practices. With this approach we foreground risk-taking as routinely made and re-made through concrete practices and, therefore, risks do not exist independently of these social practices.
