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Folk Devils and Moral Panics - The creation of the Mods and Rockers (Hardcover)
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics - The creation of the Mods and Rockers (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classics
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'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods
and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum
seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was
Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s
and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into
widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the
way in which the media and often those in a position of political
power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values
and interests. Fanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen
brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being
marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting
rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups
represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further
by identifying the very fault lines of power in society. Full of
sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is
essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful
and enduring phenomenon. Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus
Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He
received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of
Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council
on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.
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