"It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of the moral panic. Newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger resulting from moral laxity, and television programmes echo the theme with sensational documentaries. This concise guide presents and compares the various different approaches that have been adopted in studies of moral panics and integrates concepts such as 'risk' which have been developed in related fields. With th ..."
"Enter the mind, body, and heart of a lost soldier longing to find his way home. Told in firsthand accounts, the life and journey of a retired Infantry soldier is reflected in a real, poignant view of a man in turmoil from experiences of war, love, sex, substance & drug abuse; but most importantly his battle to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). Read through his struggles. Gain insight into joining the fight for support of P ..."
"The semantic definition, instead, is obtained from the contextual use of the word
at different historical times—it is more specific, but also varies greatly ... Marco
Orrù, Anomie: History and Meanings, Boston and London, Allen & Unwin, 1987, p
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The Book of Weeds How to Deal with Plants that Behave Badly by KennethThompson, Dk Publishing Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2009 by Dk Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7566-4271-6, ISBN: 0-7566-4271-X
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Moral Panics by KennethThompson 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-81161-8, ISBN: 1-134-81161-6
"A panic about what was happening to British youth in the 1960s was the
occasion for the first sociological analysis of a moral panic (S. Cohen 1972) and
this is significant for a number of reasons: first, because concerns about the moral
condition of youth have been the object of periodic ... The initial episode of
deviant behaviour that gave rise to a moral panic and the elevation of a section of
British youth to the status of fol ..."
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"For example, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda reject accounts, such as
that of Stuart Hall et al. (1978) regarding the mugging moral panic, which they
describe as being based on 'the assumption that elites dominate social
institutions to the extent that they can control or dictate human consciousness
and behaviour' (Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994:3). Hall and his colleagues did
attempt to analyse the process by which certain ideologic ..."
"This book examines his considerable achievements and situates them in their social and intellectual contexts, with a concise account of the major elements of Durkheim's sociology."
"Featuring a new fifty-page interview with Hans J. Morgenthau by Bernard Johnson, this volume on the renowed scholar and philosopher demonstrates how pervasive is his mark on the study of international relations and political philosophy."
""The Uses of Sociology" discusses whether sociological knowledge is important. It introduces students to the main ways in which sociology is practised in the world and explores the major debates concerning its social purposes. Comparing and contrasting different traditions of sociological thought, the authors examine the different modes in which they engage with the social. Questions considered include the relevance of sociological know ..."
Key Quotations in Sociology(1st Edition) (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese) by KennethThompson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-05761-5, ISBN: 0-415-05761-2
"This is an indispensable reference tool for all students and sociology enthusiaists. Quotations are extracted not only from the `Founding Fathers', but also more recent influential figures."
"Is there really an "information revolution"? What are the implications of information technology for our lives and social institutions? What social, political and ethical issues does it raise? This collection of papers by international specialists confronts these controversial questions. The book aims to provide a challange to many facile assumptions, making it a valuable resource for teaching and research on information technology at u ..."
The Book of Weeds How to Deal With Plants That Behave Badly by KennethThompson Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2009 by Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4053-3554-6, ISBN: 1-4053-3554-8
"Finally, from the author of Compost, fascinating information and advice on handling weeds - how to recognize them, how to control them, and how to exploit them. The first step is to know your enemy, so weeds are identified and the survival strategies of various types is explained to enable you to get rid of them more easily. Finally, an explanation of what makes a plant a weed, and what makes it a useful or even critical part of the gar ..."
"Consequendy in editing this Reader we have tried to select recent articles which
do not appear in other Readers on organisations ... GRAEME SALAMAN
KENNETH THOMPSON 2 In addition to this volume the other prescribed texts for
the course are: Oscar Grusky and George A. Miller, eds, The Sociology of
Organizations: basic studies, New York, The Free Press, 1970; David Silverman,
The Theory of ..."
The Skinny Marketing from Scratch by David Strutton, KennethThompson Paperback, Published 2020 by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-1-79240-935-6, ISBN: 1-79240-935-4
Humour Me With Enough Stupidity May Blossom Great Profundity. This Is Not One of Those Times. by KennethThompson Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2019 by Friesenpress ISBN-13: 978-1-5255-4351-7, ISBN: 1-5255-4351-2
"Kenneth wrote this book at the age of twenty-one. In his high school yearbook Kenneth won ‘Funniest Twitter Account’ and has been riding off that success ever since."