Beyond Traffic SafetyTransaction Publishers - 251 páginas Peter Rothe's absorbing volume ex-amines one of the most important areas of modern life, the culture of the automobile. Rothe takes a problem central to everyday life--auto safety-- and reconstructs it into a means of revealing the human condition. His goal is to motivate the reader to think differently about traffic safety, and to suspend all inherited epidemiological, engineering, and psychological beliefs. Because traffic arises from the interac-tion between people, he argues that traffic safety is a social process, one that is created, formed, and changed by human interaction. Beyond Traffic Safety presents con-troversial critiques and provocative positions. It stimulates insight into the question of why traffic safety issues have become so important today. Rothe explores new social boundaries and crosses old ones. He demonstrates that interlinking social factors in a motorist's behavior reveal traffic safety as a significant facet of social behavior worthy of in-depth exploration. This may well be the first work of fundamen-tal theory in an area thus far dominated by crude empiricism. Beyond Traffic Safety describes responsibilities of drivers and ex-amines how basic trust in traffic routines sustains an orderly traffic flow. It shows how physical risks are negotiated to accommodate social ex-pectations. Part of the text is devoted to the role played by the driver's license as a form of social control, emphasiz-ing the way in which various images of licensing convey different ideas about traffic safety. Rothe focuses on the development of traffic laws and how laws affect driver behavior. He also traces the roles that discretion and tolerance play in police work. In par-ticular, the dominant traffic violation, speeding, is analyzed. Rothe looks at traffic safety in a new way by presenting it as part of a social scientific framework. He provides a basis for future exploration of this kind. Beyond Traffic Safety is an im-portant and insightful analysis for road users, traffic safety educators, policymakers, psychologists, and sociologists. |
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... individual , mobility , and social space . This book may change your life . Rothe takes a problem from the realm of conventional , accepted reality and auto safety , and reconstructs it into a central means of investigating the human ...
... Individuals are rewarded for seizing the moment to gain fame . and fortune . But , when applied to driving , when a motorist " puts a tiger in her tank " enabling her to " get out of town fast , " we define her as a risk - taker or ...
... individual citizens ( Fowler , 1985 ) ? Is " traffic safety " a facilitating concept used to engender a need to educate motorists on the consequences of self choice and risk ? If one assumes that language is constitutive of social ...
... individuals whose rules of driving action reflect everyday concerns and circumstances . When this perspective is offered , the young- driver problem changes . Rather than intervene with punitive punishment or restrictions based on an ...
... smokers , overweight couch potatoes , alcohol consumers , or reckless young drivers as health delinquents . Individual health is equated to personal choice . Witness the following quotation by the Canadian Setting the Stage 5.
Contenido
Trust in Motoring | 11 |
Responsibility and Driver Conduct | 23 |
Street Risks | 37 |
Licensing Strategies Common Sense | 53 |
Becoming a Driver and ExDriver | 69 |
Constructing Traffic Laws | 85 |
Policing Traffic Laws | 105 |
The Speed Ethos | 133 |
Using a WideAngle Lense on Impaired Driving | 147 |
Drinking Sites Impaired Driving | 161 |
Claim Making and the Drive for Greater | 171 |
Surveillance on the Roadway | 187 |
Electronic Traffic Surveillance and | 203 |
The Emergence of Traffic Sociology | 215 |
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