caa a22 4500 445886986 CHVBK 20180317145602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11133-010-9176-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11133-010-9176-7 Desmond Matthew Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 78 Mount Auburn Street, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA aut Making Firefighters Deployable [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew Desmond] Although sociologists have devoted a considerable amount of research to exploring high-risk organizations, they have not yet developed an adequate explanation as to why individuals working within such organizations place themselves in harm's way and how organizations ensure they remain there. This article addresses this gap by analyzing how the United States Forest Service motivates wildland firefighters to participate in life-threatening activity. Drawing on ethnographic research and content analyses of official documents, it describes the process by which firefighters come to develop a specific disposition towards risk taking, a disposition through which they view firefighting as an activity void of danger, and how this disposition maintains its shape, and even grows stronger, after confronting its biggest challenge: the death of a firefighter. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Firefighting nationallicence High-risk organizations nationallicence Risk nationallicence Human error nationallicence Death nationallicence Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 59-77 0162-0436 34:1<59 2011 34 11133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9176-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9176-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Desmond Matthew Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 78 Mount Auburn Street, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 59-77 0162-0436 34:1<59 2011 34 11133 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer