Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Moral Panics

The Social Construction of Deviance

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From the Renaissance witch craze to the denunciation of horror comics and rock and roll in the 1950s and flag burning in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century, institutions and groups of individuals have mobilized around issues where they feel threatened. This book introduces, describes, and analyzes the collective outbreaks of scares about threats or supposed threats from deviants or folk devils, a category of people who, some believe, engage in evil practices and are blamed for menacing the society's culture, way of life, and central values. Examining what motivates fear- and concern-inspired collective behavior, the second… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Goode, Erich

ISBN: 978-1-4443-0793-1
EAN: 9781444307931
Produktnummer: 13868029
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'624 KB
Auflage: 2. Aufl.

Über den Autor

Erich Goode is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books include The Marijuana Smokers (1970), Collective Behavior (1992), Deviance in Everyday Life (2002), Extreme Deviance (edited with Angus Vail, 2008), Drugs in American Society (7th edition, 2008), and Deviant Behavior (8th edition, 2008). Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Deviance and Moral Boundaries (1985), The Politics and Morality of Deviance (1990), Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice (1993), The Masada Myth (1995), Betrayals and Treason (2001), and Selective Remembrances (edited with Philip Kohl and Mara Kozelsky, 2007).