The Myth of Moral Panics · Sex, Snuff, and Satan
- Authors
- Thompson, Bill, Williams, Andy
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Tags
- sociology , psychology , politics , philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780415812665
- Date
- 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.44 MB
- Lang
- en
This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.