Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

Stanley Cohen

282 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology sociology challenging informative slow-paced

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'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published ...

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