Research Catalog

Title

Folk devils and moral panics : the creation of the Mods and Rockers / Stanley Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Stanley

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description

lxxiv, 201 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

P. 145.

Subject

• Young adults > Great Britain > Case studies
• Deviant behavior
• Subculture > Great Britain
• Moral panics

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Note

• Originally published: New ed. Oxford : M. Robertson, 1980. With new introduction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-189) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Moral Panics as Cultural Politics: Introduction to the Third Edition -- Symbols of Trouble: Introduction to the Second Edition -- 1. Deviance and Moral Panics -- Transactional Approach to Deviance -- Deviance and the Mass Media -- Case of the Mods and Rockers -- 2. Inventory -- Exaggeration and Distortion -- Prediction -- Symbolization -- Inventory as Manufactured News -- 3. Reaction: Opinion and Attitude Themes -- Orientation -- Images -- Causation -- Differential Reaction -- Modes and Models of Explanation -- 4. Reaction: The Rescue and Remedy Phases -- Sensitization -- Societal Control Culture -- Exploitative Culture -- 5. On the Beaches: The Warning and the Impact -- Setting the Stage: The Warning Phase -- Crowd Scenes -- Audience -- Mass Media -- Control Agents -- Summary -- 6. Contexts and Backgrounds: Youth in the Sixties -- Emergence of the Mods and Rockers -- Sociology of Moral Panics -- Coming to an End.

ISBN

• 0415267110
• 0415267129 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002032633

OCLC

• 50448027
• SCSB-12264564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library