Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Moral Panics (eBook, PDF)

The Social Construction of Deviance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.

• Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare
• Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic
• Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itself
• Written by long-established experts in the field
• Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Scrivener
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444307931
• Artikelnr.: 37350018

Autorenporträt

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 (7^th edition, 2008), and Deviant Behavior (8^th 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).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements viii
Prologue 1
1 Enter the Moral Panic 20
2 The Moral Panic: An Introduction 34
3 Three Theories of the Moral Panic 51
4 The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics 73
5 The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic 88
6 Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law 109
7 Collective Behavior 129
8 Social Movements 141
9 Social Problems 150
10 The Renaissance Witch Craze 168
11 Drug Abuse Panics 197
12 The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade 218
Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic 245
References 251
Author Index 270
Subject Index 275

Rezensionen

"This close reading of the facts behind a media story are the essence of Goode and Ben-Yehuda's work. They have taken the time and trouble to try and see what is a moral panic and what is true." (Metapsychology, March 2010)"In a thoroughly updated new edition of their very valuable book,Goode and Ben-Yehuda demonstrate the wide gulf that so oftenseparates the real menaces facing our society from thedisproportionate waves of public fear and concern that regularlysurface in the mass media. Their book - intelligently written,wide-ranging and provocative - shows us once again that knowingwhat a society fears is essential to understanding its core values,and its highest aspirations."
-Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University

"Moral Panics is more than a classic text in socialtheory. In this newly updated and enlarged edition, it is anindispensable text for every twenty-first century scholarinterested in the social construction and diffusion of fear."
-Barry Glassner, author of The Culture ofFear

"Moral panics remains one of the most hotly-debated sociologicalideas to have entered the public sphere, so an up-dated version ofGoode and Ben-Yehuda's pathbreaking work on this subject isvery welcome. The new version is even more enlightening than itspredecessor."
-Kenneth Thompson, Open University