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Moral Panics 2e Hardcover - 2009 - 2nd Edition

by Erich Goode; Nachman Ben-Yehuda


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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

From the rear cover

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 edition of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance comprehensively updates this popular and highly-respected text, bringing in a host of new examples, and new chapters on the media and criticisms of the moral panics concept.

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  • Title Moral Panics 2e
  • Author Erich Goode; Nachman Ben-Yehuda
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2009-09-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781405189347 / 1405189347
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.9 in (24.64 x 17.53 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Moral conditions, Deviant behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009007417
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.17

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 134

About the author

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).

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