Moral Panics
The Social Construction of Deviance
2. Auflage August 2009
312 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides
a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise
of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they
take place.
* Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism,
the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag
burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex
slave" scare
* Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a
major component of the moral panic
* Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition
as well as the moral panics concept itself
* Written by long-established experts in the field
* Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and
wider courses on deviance
Prologue 1
1 Enter the Moral Panic 20
2 The Moral Panic: An Introduction 34
3 Three Theories of the Moral Panic 51
4 The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics 73
5 The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic 88
6 Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law 109
7 Collective Behavior 129
8 Social Movements 141
9 Social Problems 150
10 The Renaissance Witch Craze 168
11 Drug Abuse Panics 197
12 The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade 218
Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic 245
References 251
Author Index 270
Subject Index 275
"In a thoroughly updated new edition of their very valuable book,
Goode and Ben-Yehuda demonstrate the wide gulf that so often
separates the real menaces facing our society from the
disproportionate waves of public fear and concern that regularly
surface in the mass media. Their book - intelligently written,
wide-ranging and provocative - shows us once again that knowing
what a society fears is essential to understanding its core values,
and its highest aspirations."
-Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University
"Moral Panics is more than a classic text in social
theory. In this newly updated and enlarged edition, it is an
indispensable text for every twenty-first century scholar
interested in the social construction and diffusion of fear."
-Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of
Fear
"Moral panics remains one of the most hotly-debated sociological
ideas to have entered the public sphere, so an up-dated version of
Goode and Ben-Yehuda's pathbreaking work on this subject is
very welcome. The new version is even more enlightening than its
predecessor."
-Kenneth Thompson, Open University
University of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books include
The Marijuana Smokers (1970), Collective Behavior
(1992), Deviance in Everyday Life (2002), Extreme
Deviance (edited with Angus Vail, 2008), Drugs in American
Society (7th edition, 2008), and Deviant
Behavior (8th edition, 2008).
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor of Sociology at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include
Deviance and Moral Boundaries (1985), The Politics and
Morality of Deviance (1990), Political Assassinations by
Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice (1993), The Masada
Myth (1995), Betrayals and Treason (2001), and
Selective Remembrances (edited with Philip Kohl and Mara
Kozelsky, 2007).
