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100	1	0	_aPeretti-Watel, Patrick _eauthor
245	0	0	_aResorting to an Epidemiological Paradigm to Study Risk-Taking Behaviors
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520			_aAs may be seen from a study of the scholarly literature, the contemporary success of the notion of “risk-taking behavior” is largely due to use of the epidemiology paradigm for studying human behavior. The paradigm gives primacy to prediction over understanding, and in general to an individual-focused multifactor causality model. This in turn produces a proliferation of behaviors labelled “risky”, raises methodological and discrimination problems, and makes it extremely difficult to bring scientific controversies to a close. From a sociological perspective, the disadvantage of the epidemiological approach to studying risk-taking behaviors is that it evacuates the social dimension of human behavior, especially since, in trying to resolve ongoing controversies, epidemiology-paradigm studies tend to favor approaches that subject risk-taking behavior to pharmacological or genetic determinism.
786	0		_nRevue française de sociologie | 45 | 1 | 2004-03-01 | p. 103-132 | 0035-2969
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2004-1-page-103?lang=en
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