Format:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415119764
,
9780203980903
Series Statement:
Key Ideas Series
Content:
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
Note:
Cover -- MORAL PANICS -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 'WHY THE PANIC?' - THE TOPICALITY OF THE CONCEPT OF MORAL PANICS -- THE HISTORY AND MEANING OF THE CONCEPT -- RISK SOCIETY -- DISCOURSES AND DISCURSIVE PRACTICES -- MASS MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- 2 THE CLASSIC MORAL PANIC-MODS AND ROCKERS -- THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA -- SOCIAL CONTROL AGENTS AND MORAL ENTREPRENEURS -- SOCIAL CONTEXT -- SUMMARY OF COHEN'S APPROACH -- 3 MORAL PANICS ABOUT YOUTH -- CLUB CULTURES AND RAVES -- 4 MORAL PANIC ABOUT MUGGING -- 5 MORAL PANICS ABOUT SEX AND AIDS -- AIDS -- 6 FAMILY, CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE -- RISK -- CHILDREN AT RISK -- VIDEO NASTIES PANIC -- 7 FEMALE VIOLENCE AND GIRL GANGS -- 8 MORAL PANICS ABOUT SEX ON THE SCREEN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Thompson, Kenneth Moral Panics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1998 ISBN 9780415119764
Language:
English
Keywords:
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