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Dan Morrison and Natalia Ruiz-Junco of Auburn University interview Ugo Corte, Professor of Sociology at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Corte is author of Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers, published in 2022 by the University of Chicago Press. He is co-author, with Gary Alan Fine, of “Group Pleasures: Collaborative Commitments, Shared Narrative, and the Sociology of Fun” published in Sociological Theory. In this interview, Corte shares his ethnographic work on big wave surfing, risk-taking, and the difference between pleasure and fun.
