Folk devils and moral panics : the creation of the mods and rockers
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Folk devils and moral panics : the creation of the mods and rockers
Basil Blackwell, 1987
3rd ed.
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Previous ed.: Oxford : Martin Robertson, 1980
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A classic sociology book of the 1970s, this book offers an account of the social reaction to deviant behaviour, using a detailed case study of the Mods and Rockers phenomenon which hit Britain in the 1960s, but also paying attention to the general processes which generated other "folk devils" such as Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, football hooligans, skinheads and punks. The book's conclusion is as applicable today as it was when first published: "More moral panics will be generated and other, as yet nameless, folk devils will be created ...our society as presently structured will continue to generate problems for some of its members - like working class adolescents - and then condemn whatever solution these groups find."
Table of Contents
- Symbols of trouble
- deviance and moral panics
- the inventory
- reaction - opinion and attitude themes
- reaction - the rescue and remedy phases
- on the beaches - the warning and the impact
- contexts and backgrounds - youth in the Sixties.
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