Creating Fear by David L Altheide
The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a discurse of fear - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the explotation of such fear construction. One social impact is a manipulated public empathy: We now have more victims than at any time in our prior history. Another, more troubling resutl is the role we have ceded to law enforcement and punishment: we turn ever more readily to the state and formal control to protect us from what we fear. This book attempts through the marshalling of significant data to interrupt that vicious cycle of fear discourse.-
Punishment and Social Control
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Making Trouble
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The Family at Risk
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Court-Ordered Insanity
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Sexual Conduct
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Weighty Issues
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Interpreting Weight
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Hate Crimes
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Courting Disaster
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Becoming Miracle Workers
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The Fight Against Big Tobacco
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Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health
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Thinking About Social Problems
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Framing the Victim
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Social Movement Organizations
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Corrupt Exchanges
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Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research
David L. Altheide is Regents' Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where has taught for 31 years. A sociologist, who uses qualitative methods, his work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. His theoretical and methodological statements on the relevance of the mass media for sociological analysis include An Ecology of Communication: Cultural Formats of Control (Aldine de Gruyter, 1995) and Qualitative Media Analysis (Sage, 1996). Another recent book, Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Aldine de Gruyter, 2002), focuses on the news media's constructions of a discourse of fear and the social consequences of this. This book received the 2004 Cooley Award, as the best book for the year in the tradition of symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Dr. Altheide also won this award in 1986 for his book, Media Power. He has also applied qualitative research designs to investigate the nature and process of educational reform, with particular emphasis on school context and culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780202306605 |
| ISBN 10 | 0202306607 |
| Title | Creating Fear |
| Author | David L Altheide |
| Series | Social Problems And Social Issues Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2002-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 238 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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