Culture Of Fear Revisited
Author(s): Furedi Frank
Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Argues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others.
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Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and the author of numerous books including Culture of Fear and Politics of Fear (both Continuum).
Preface; Introduction; 1. The explosion of risks; 2. Why do we panic?; 3. the culture of abuse; 4. A world of risky strangers; 5. Who can you trust?; 6. The new etiquette; 7. The Politics of Fear; 8. Towards a sociology of fear; Bibliography; Index.
General Fields
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- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.279
- : 26 October 2006
- : 140mm X 216mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Furedi Frank
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 302.17
- : 236