Moral panics : the social construction of deviance / Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Edition: Second editionDescription: xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1405189339
- 1405189347
- 9781405189330
- 9781405189347
- 302.17 22
- HM811 .G667 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
Prologue -- 1. Enter the Moral Panic -- 2. The Moral Panic: An Introduction -- 3. Three Theories of the Moral Panic -- 4. The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics -- 5. The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic -- 6. Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law -- 7. Collective Behavior -- 8. Social Movements -- 9. Social Problems -- 10. The Renaissance WitchCraze -- 11. Drug Abuse Panics -- 12. The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade -- Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic.
This book analyzes "moral panics"--collective outbreaks of fear over illusory or trivial threats. It focuses on why people still believe something must be done about threats that prove not to be materially real.
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