Product details
ISBN
9780415119764
Published
1998-03-12
Publisher
Vendor
Routledge
Weight
204 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
127 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
176
Author
Biographical note
Kenneth Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University.
It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies.
This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and reflected through the media over time. Using examples drawn from:
* club culture and raves
* mugging
* sex and AIDS
* children, violence and the family.
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With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger case and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media.
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Chapter 1 ‘Why the Panic?’ — The Topicality of the Concept of Moral Panics; Chapter 2 The Classic Moral Panic—Mods and Rockers; Chapter 3 Moral Panics about Youth; Chapter 4 Moral Panic about Mugging; Chapter 5 Moral Panics about Sex and Aids; Chapter 6 Family, Children and Violence; Chapter 7 Female Violence and Girl Gangs; Chapter 8 Moral Panics about Sex on the Screen; Conclusion;
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Product details
ISBN
9780415119764
Published
1998-03-12
Publisher
Vendor
Routledge
Weight
204 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
127 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
176
Author