The manufacture of news;: Social problems, deviance and the mass media (Communication and society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Stanley Cohen

Social Sciences

Constable

The Manufacture of News: Deviance, Social Problems and the Mass Media (COMMUNICATION AND SOC)

Jock Young

Business & Money

Images of Deviance

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the Mods and Rockers

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent.  The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

St.Martin's Press

Psychological survival;: The experience of long-term imprisonment

Pantheon Books

<p>From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.</p>

Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance in Everyday Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Laurie Taylor

Mental Health

Routledge

330 Park: The Hijacking of a Skyscraper

BERKLEY

Angel Face

Angel Face Nhb

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

<p>Ten mystery writers, members of the Adams Round Table, offer baffling cases of unsolved murder in the Big Apple</p>

Missing in Manhattan: The Adams Round Table

Literature & Fiction

Warren Murphy

Lucy Freeman

Thomas Chastain

JUSTIN SCOTT

Judith Kelman

Mickey Friedman

Joyce Harrington

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

United States

Longmeadow Pr.

States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering

Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see . . . these are all expressions of ‘denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner’s infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - all are supposedly ‘in denial’. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve ‘maximum deniability’, while bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. New climate change research spawns theories of scientific inaccuracy and outright exaggeration from growing camps of climate change deniers.   In this revised edition of his highly acclaimed States of Denial, Stanley Cohen revisits his cogent intervention on these issues. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public’s apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity?  Hailed by critics as one of the most important contributions ever made to our understanding of atrocities and suffering, States of Denial is a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. Ranging from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the ‘passive bystander’ and ‘compassion fatigue', the book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.

Polity Pr

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