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Social Theory of Fear

Author : G. Skoll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230112633
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory of Fear written by G. Skoll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is available Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Users are free to disseminate and reuse the ebook. The licence does not however permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Social Theory of Fear

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ISBN 13 : 9781349287796
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory of Fear written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that people looked to authorities for security, which permitted extension of apparatuses of coercion like police and military forces. In the face of growing oppression, rebellion against elite hegemony remains possible. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is available Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Users are free to disseminate and reuse the ebook. The licence does not however permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0. For more information about the experiment visit our FAQs.

Social Theory of Fear

Author : G. Skoll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230112633
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory of Fear written by G. Skoll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is available Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Users are free to disseminate and reuse the ebook. The licence does not however permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Fear of a Queer Planet

Author : Michael Warner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816623341
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Fear of a Queer Planet written by Michael Warner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, lesbians and gay men have developed a new, aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of study. In "Fear of a Queer Planet", Michael Warner draws on emerging new queer politics, and shows how queer activists have come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political world. Existing traditions of theory - Marxism, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, legal theory, nationalism, and antinationalism - have too often presupposed a heterosexual society, as the essays in this volume demonstrate. "Fear of a Queer Planet" suggests a new agenda for social theory. It moves beyond the idea that lesbians and gay men share a minority identity and special interests and that their issues can be subordinated to more general social conflicts. Instead, Warner and the other contributors to this volume show that queer sexualities take many forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and struggles, and must be taken as a starting point in thinking about cultural politics. This collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing, queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of sexuality. The authors featured speak from different backgrounds of gender, race, nationality, and discipline. Together, they show how struggles over sexuality have profound implications for progressive politics, social theory, and cultural studies. Michael Warner has written extensively on censorship and the public sphere, the construction of American literary history, and the social and political implication of literary theories. He is author of "The Letter of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America" and co-editor of "The Origins of Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology".

Manufacturing Phobias

Author : Hisham Ramadan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442625031
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Phobias written by Hisham Ramadan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and social policy and advance their own agendas. The contributors to the collection, experts in criminology, law, sociology, and politics, explain how and why social phobias are created by pundits, politicians, and the media, and how they target the most vulnerable in our society. Emphasizing how social phobias reflect the interests of those with political, economic, and cultural power, this work challenges the idea that society’s anxieties are merely expressions of individual psychology. Manufacturing Phobias will be a clarion call for anyone concerned about the disturbing consequences of our culture of fear.

Creating Fear

Author : David L. Altheide
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351525271
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Creating Fear written by David L. Altheide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure

Author : J. M. Barbalet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521003599
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure written by J. M. Barbalet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.

Creating Conspiracy Beliefs

Author : Dolores Albarracin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845789
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Creating Conspiracy Beliefs written by Dolores Albarracin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on psychology, political science, communication, and information sciences, this book explores the birth of conspiracy theories.

An Invitation to Social Theory

Author : David Inglis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745676847
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book An Invitation to Social Theory written by David Inglis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act, and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that can hide more than it reveals. Cutting through the often off-putting writing styles of social theorists, this book demonstrates exactly what social theory is about, clearly presenting the key themes of major social theory from the classical thinkers onwards. Areas covered include Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, feminism and structuration theories. Wide-ranging in scope and coverage, the book is concise in presentation and free from jargon. Showing why social theory matters, and why it is of far-reaching social and political importance, the book is ideal for students across the social sciences seeking a clear, crisp mapping of a complex but very rewarding area.

The Politics of Everyday Fear

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452901813
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Everyday Fear written by Brian Massumi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fear Itself

Author : Christopher D. Bader
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479852058
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Fear Itself written by Christopher D. Bader and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms. Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear. Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.

Social Theory after the Internet

Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787351246
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory after the Internet written by Ralph Schroeder and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.

The Imposter as Social Theory

Author : Steve Woolgar
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529213088
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Imposter as Social Theory written by Steve Woolgar and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

Entertaining Fear

Author : Catherine Chaput
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105852
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Fear written by Catherine Chaput and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people's fears - of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.

Fear of Theory

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004498893
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fear of Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.

Fear in Contemporary Society

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403973894
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Fear in Contemporary Society written by Vladimir Shlapentokh and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary social science avoids the discussion of fear as a major element of social life and as a factor that shapes social order and the quality of life. The author wants to fill this lacuna. The fear of punishments for violating the laws imposed by the state and other social institutions, such as the family, public opinion, the church and others, are useful for the maintenance order in society. The author's views oppose the mainstream of American social science, which is hostile toward coercion and the state in general, and sees social order as based only on the allegiance of the individual to the dominant culture and self-regulation. Pointing to the flaws of these views, which are mostly based on the Lockean-Parsonian tradition, as well as on the postmodern perspective, the author proposes that the Hobbesian viewpoint be included in social analysis. He assumes that social order is shaped not only from "below," but also from "above" with the state as a positive agent.

The Mood of the World

Author : Heinz Bude
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509519971
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Mood of the World written by Heinz Bude and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many people feel worse off and the future seems bleak. The mood has changed – that’s clear. But what is ‘the mood’? How can feelings be shared by many people, and how do these shared feelings shape the course of events? In this book, the sociologist Heinz Bude offers a highly original analysis of this vital but neglected topic. Moods, he argues, are ways of being in the world. Moods shape how we experience the world, which feelings and thoughts suggest themselves to us and which are excluded. But moods are not purely private: on the contrary, they form the basic tone or colouring of our collective existence and experience. They are crucial in determining our political outlook and preferences, our attitudes and identities, and they provide much of the energy that underlies forms of collective action, including social movements that seem to appear suddenly from nowhere. With the growing significance of a politics of discontent, Bude’s insightful analysis of the power of collective moods could not be more relevant. His book will appeal to anyone wanting to understand how our societies are changing in these profoundly uncertain times.