Moral Panics: Social Construction of Deviance - Hardcover

Goode, Erich; Ben-Yehuda, Nachman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631189041 ISBN 13: 9780631189046

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1994

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Why do members of a society become concerned and fearful about a practically non-existent threat? Why, even if a threat is real, do they show a concern so disproportionate to the magnitude of the threat itself? And why do certain "deviants" or "folk devils" so often become the target of society's wrath? This wide-ranging account of "moral panics" shows how and why institutions and groups of individuals mobilize around issues and supposed problems by which they feel threatened. From the Renaissance witch-craze to the American drug panic of the 1980s, the authors explore the genesis, dynamics and demise of moral panics - and examine their impacts on the societies in which they take place.

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• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0631189041
• ISBN 13: 9780631189046
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304