Pop Culture Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pop Culture Panics write by Karen Sternheimer. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Pop Culture Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moral panics reveal much about a society’s social structure and the sociology embedded in everyday life. This short text examines extreme reactions to American popular culture over the past century, including crusades against comic books, music, and pinball machines, to help convey the "sociological imagination" to undergraduates. Sternheimer creates a critical lens through which to view current and future attempts of modern-day moral crusaders, who try to convince us that simple solutions—like regulating popular culture—are the answer to complex social problems. Pop Culture Panics is ideal for use in undergraduate social problems, social deviance, and popular culture courses.
Pop Culture Panics
Pop Culture Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pop Culture Panics write by Karen Sternheimer. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Pop Culture Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moral panics reveal much about a society’s social structure and the sociology embedded in everyday life. This short text examines extreme reactions to American popular culture over the past century, including crusades against comic books, music, and pinball machines, to help convey the "sociological imagination" to undergraduates. Sternheimer creates a critical lens through which to view current and future attempts of modern-day moral crusaders, who try to convince us that simple solutions—like regulating popular culture—are the answer to complex social problems. Pop Culture Panics is ideal for use in undergraduate social problems, social deviance, and popular culture courses.
Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics
Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics write by John Springhall. This book was released on 1999-04-28. Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The international controversy (highlighted in Britain by the Bulger case) over the relationship between video nasties and crime is one that has a long prior history. Do books, films or magazines create a corrupting environment which encourages crime and moral decay? Dr. Springhall has written a highly perceptive and entertaining account of how commercial culture in Britain and America has been viewed, since its inception during the Industrial Revolution, as a force likely to undermine national morals. There has been wave after wave of scares: from the Victorian penny gaff theatres and penny dreadful novels to Hollywood gangster films, and American horror comics. A final chapter refers to video nasties, violence on television, 'gansta-rap' and computer games, each in turn playing the role of folk devils which must be causing delinquency. Why particular issues suddenly galvanize public attention, and why so many people have associated delinquency with entertainment, form the fascinating subjects of this groundbreaking book.
Conspiracy Panics
Conspiracy Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conspiracy Panics write by Jack Z. Bratich. This book was released on 2008-02-07. Conspiracy Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.
Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture
Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture write by Karen Sternheimer. This book was released on 2013-02-19. Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Does cyber-bullying lead to an increase in suicide rates? Are teens promiscuous because of Teen Mom? As Karen Sternheimer clearly demonstrates, popular culture is an easy scapegoat for many of society's problems, but it is almost always the wrong answer. Now in its second edition, Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture goes beyond the news-grabbing headlines claiming that popular culture is public enemy number one to consider what really causes the social problems we are most concerned about. The sobering fact is that a "media made them do it" explanation fails to illuminate the roots of social problems like poverty, violence, and environmental degradation. Sternheimer's analysis deftly illustrates how welfare "reform," a two-tiered health care system, and other difficult systemic issues have far more to do with our contemporary social problems than Grand Theft Auto or Facebook. The fully-revised new edition features recent moral panics—think sexting and cyberbullying—and an entirely new chapter exploring social media. Expanded discussion of how we understand society's problems as social constructions without disregarding empirical evidence, as well as the cultural and structural issues underlying those ills, allows students to stretch their sociological imaginations.
