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Title: | Moral panic and social theory: Beyond the heuristic |
Authors: | Rohloff, A Wright, S |
Keywords: | Norbert Elias;Governance;Moral panic;Risk;Social theory |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Sage publications ltd |
Citation: | Current Sociology 58(3): 403 - 419, May 2010 |
Abstract: | Critcher has recently conceptualized moral panic as a heuristic device, or 'ideal type'. While he argues that one still has to look beyond the heuristic, despite a few exceptional studies there has been little utilization of recent developments in social theory in order to look 'beyond moral panic'. Explicating two current critical contributions - the first, drawing from the sociologies of governance and risk; the second, from the process/figurational sociology of Norbert Elias - this article highlights the necessity for the continuous theoretical development of the moral panic concept and illustrates how such development is essential to overcome some of the substantial problems with moral panic research: normativity, temporality and (un) intentionality. |
Description: | Copyright @ 2011 by International Sociological Association. |
URI: | http://csi.sagepub.com/content/58/3/403 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5573 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392110364039 |
ISSN: | 0011-3921 |
Appears in Collections: | Sociology Publications Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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