Folk Devils and Moral Panics the Creation of the Mods and Rockers - Softcover
A classic sociology book of the 1970s, this book offers an account of the social reaction to deviant behaviour, using a detailed case study of the Mods and Rockers phenomenon which hit Britain in the 1960s, but also paying attention to the general processes which generated other "folk devils" such as Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, football hooligans, skinheads and punks. The book's conclusion is as applicable today as it was when first published: "More moral panics will be generated and other, as yet nameless, folk devils will be created ...our society as presently structured will continue to generate problems for some of its members - like working class adolescents - and then condemn whatever solution these groups find."
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Stanely Cohen is a Professor at the London School of Economics. He was professor of Criminology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His books include Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life (with Laurie Taylor, 1976) and Against Criminology, (1988).
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Stan Cohen's `Folk Devils and Moral Panics' was a brilliant and subtle exercise in grounded theory. It has proved consistently fertile for a great deal of new work in sociological analysis the thirty years since its first publication and its critical idea of moral panics proved to be generative for a wide variety of scholars and research fields. In the new introduction to the third edition, an original piece of reflection on the vicarious pathways of its appropriation, and a wonderful reprise of its uses and abuses, Stan Cohen gently but steadily guides us back to its original illuminating intellectual core. Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor, The Open University.
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- PublisherBlackwell Pub
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0631157824
- ISBN 13 9780631157823
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages280
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