Goode / Ben-Yehuda Moral Panics

The Social Construction of Deviance
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0793-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition providesa fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demiseof moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which theytake place.
* Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism,the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flagburning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sexslave" scare
* Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as amajor component of the moral panic
* Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first editionas 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 andwider courses on deviance

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goode, Erich

Ben-Yehuda, Nachman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Erich Goode is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the StateUniversity of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books includeThe Marijuana Smokers (1970), Collective Behavior(1992), Deviance in Everyday Life (2002), ExtremeDeviance (edited with Angus Vail, 2008), Drugs in AmericanSociety (7th edition, 2008), and DeviantBehavior (8th edition, 2008).
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor of Sociology at theHebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications includeDeviance and Moral Boundaries (1985), The Politics andMorality of Deviance (1990), Political Assassinations byJews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice (1993), The MasadaMyth (1995), Betrayals and Treason (2001), andSelective Remembrances (edited with Philip Kohl and MaraKozelsky, 2007).