This collection of essays examines the importance of moral panic as a routine feature of everyday life, and important for identity formation, national security, industrial risk, and character formation.
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No decade since the end of World War II has been as seminal in its historical significance as the 1960s. That stormy period unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war…
"Sociology has had a long and convoluted relationship with the public policy community. While the field has historically considered its mission one of effecting social change, in recent decades this has become only a minor part of the sociological agenda. The editor of this volu…
"Sociology has had a long and convoluted relationship with the public policy community. While the field has historically considered its mission one of effecting social change, in recent decades this has become only a minor part of the sociological agenda. The editor of this volu…
"America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s looks at 12 key events, including John F. Kennedy's death, the Civil Rights Act, the introduction of the birth control pill, the student killings at Kent State, and Richard Nixon's resignation. Each chapter recounts the event as it a…
"America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s looks at 12 key events, including John F. Kennedy's death, the Civil Rights Act, the introduction of the birth control pill, the student killings at Kent State, and Richard Nixon's resignation. Each chapter recounts the event as it a…
"Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, …
"Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, …
"In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welco…
"Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, …
Die "Adipositas-Epidemie" gilt als eine der größten gesundheitspolitischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und zunehmend auch als politisches Problem. Die Studie untersucht den Prozess der Etablierung dieser, zwar nur temporären, aber dennoch wirkmächtigen Wahrheit über dicke Kö…