Folk Devils & Moral Panics. The creation of the Mods and Rockers

Cohen, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0261100211 / ISBN 13: 9780261100213

Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1972

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Brown boards have silver titles on spine. Minimal bumping and rubbing of spine ends and corners and slight fading along edges but in very good order overall. Contents tight with previous owner's name on front e/p. 224pp with some b&w plates. Some foxing of page edges. Dust jacket has some foxing internally, some age discolouration and bumping and chipping along top edge with 2 small closed tears at top corners. Overall a very nice copy of this first edition. Seller Inventory # 22288

Bibliographic Details

Title: Folk Devils & Moral Panics. The creation of ...

Publisher: MacGibbon & Kee, London

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Good +

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

First Edition. Focusing on a detailed case study on the creation of mods and rockers, the author presents a case on society's obsession with creating modern 'folk devils'. Illust. 224pp

Review:

""Stan Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics' was a brilliant and subtle exercise in "grounded theory." It has proved consistently fertile for a great deal of new work in sociological analysis the thirty years since its first publication and its critical idea of "moral panics" proved to be generative for a wide variety of scholars and research fields. In the new introduction to the third edition, an original piece of reflection on the vicarious pathways of its appropriation, and a wonderful reprise of its uses and abuses, Stan Cohen gently but steadily guides us back to its original illuminating intellectual core." Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor, The Open University."