Folk devils and moral panic. Creation of mods and rockers. 2nd ed. Cohen S.

Fashion and rockers, skinheads, designer drugs, fake refugees and guys in sweatshirts. Each era has its own moral panic. It was thanks to the classical work of Stanley Cohen, first published in the early 1970s and since then repeatedly processed that the term “moral panic” became wide use. This outstanding study reveals, as the media and often the authorized authorities include one or another circumstance or a group to the threat of public values ​​and interests. Exposing the screaming headlines of the media, Cohen demonstrates how these processes lead to the marginalization of such groups and their denigration in folk representations, complicating the rational discussion of social problems. Moreover, the author claims that the moral panic allows you to see the fault lines that penetrate society and the power relations in it.

The book is addressed to culturalists, sociologists, media researchers, social psychologists, but it will be interesting to a wide range of readers.