Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Stanley Cohen

280 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 vil...

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