Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

1. Introduction: The Issue of the Scale of the Event—One Object or Three Parties?
Timothy Jenkins

Part 1. The Presuppositions of the Various Parties

2. The Social Scientists
Timothy Jenkins

3. The Group and the Mediums
Timothy Jenkins

4. The Press
Timothy Jenkins

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Crime and Society