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Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
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
Avainsanat: moral panics, collective behavior, media, folk devils, witch craze, flag burning, ritual abuse
- Tekijä(t)
- UNKNOWN
- Julkaisija
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2009
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 2
- Sivumäärä
- 304 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kasvatus, opetus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444307931
- Painetun ISBN
- 9781405189347