Nachman Ben‐yehuda
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nachman Ben‐yehuda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nachman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben‐yehuda |
| SIGNATURE | BEN YEHUDA N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deviance, Moral Boundaries And
Deviance and reactions to it define cultural moral boundaries. The origin of this idea and its implications are presented in this entry together with a few illustrations
Moral Panics
Moral panic refers to an exaggerated social reaction to what is typically constructed as a grave threat to an existing social order.
Deviance
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Deviance? Some Contemporary Debates Enter Durkheim Implications of Durkheim's Ideas Deviance and Social Control Moral Entrepreneurship Moral Panics Deviance, Change, and Stability1 Politics and Deviance Political Deviance VS. Political Justice Political Trials and Judging Deviants Criminals as Heroes and Political Criminals Power and Morality in Regular Deviance Two Illustrations Cultural Criminology…
Moral Panics
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.: Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare; Includes a new chapter on the media, curren…
Political assassinations as rhetorical devices
Political assassinations constitute a specific form of violence intended to take someone else's life against that person's wish. The act of killing (the ‘event') is distinguished from the cultural interpretation given to that act (the ‘rhetorical device'). The essay examines the rhetorical device as a cultural artifact to construct and interpret the deliberate serious attempt(s) to kill a specific actor for political reasons having something to d…
Positive and negative deviance
While it is quite clear that there IS a theoretical and empirical accumulation of knowledge in the area of the sociological study of deviance which supports the viability of the notion of "positive deviance," it also seems that the overwhelming majority of sociologists of deviance reject this possible paradigmatic shift. Hence, the voices "pushing" this shift are generally quiet, typically hesitant and the debate is made on the margins of the acc…
Conflict resolution in an underground group
Underground movements in a struggle for political independence experience processes of crystallization as well as schism. Many times, severe struggles develop in these groups and focus on issues of leadership, operations, and ideology. The success of these movements in achieving their explicit goals depends on their ability to develop an effective mechanism(s) for inner conflict(s) resolution(s). Such inner conflicts and tensions can change, in t…
Howard S. Becker
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
Talmon's concept of 'totalitarian democracy' is generalized, to make it applicable to the variety of counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, we expanded Talmon's concept of political liberty into a more general desire for 'liberation,' offered in different forms by these movements. Accordingly, the movements are classified by two variables: the direction of liberation (inner or outer) to which they aspired, and the degre…
The politicization of deviance
Using the Israeli case of Abu‐hatzira, this paper argues that processes of degradation, stigmatization and deviantization can be reversed. The case itself is documented to be followed by an interpretation clustered along two axes. It is argued, first, that Abu‐hatzira used in his favor an existing ethnic dispute in Israel, coupled with a religious factor. Second, reversal of deviantization can be achieved by politicizing "regular" deviance, subse…
The Revival of the Occult and of Science Fiction
Moral Panics
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.: Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare; Includes a new chapter on the media, curren…
Positive and negative deviance
While it is quite clear that there IS a theoretical and empirical accumulation of knowledge in the area of the sociological study of deviance which supports the viability of the notion of "positive deviance," it also seems that the overwhelming majority of sociologists of deviance reject this possible paradigmatic shift. Hence, the voices "pushing" this shift are generally quiet, typically hesitant and the debate is made on the margins of the acc…
The politicization of deviance
Using the Israeli case of Abu‐hatzira, this paper argues that processes of degradation, stigmatization and deviantization can be reversed. The case itself is documented to be followed by an interpretation clustered along two axes. It is argued, first, that Abu‐hatzira used in his favor an existing ethnic dispute in Israel, coupled with a religious factor. Second, reversal of deviantization can be achieved by politicizing "regular" deviance, subse…
Howard S. Becker
Political assassinations as rhetorical devices
Political assassinations constitute a specific form of violence intended to take someone else's life against that person's wish. The act of killing (the ‘event') is distinguished from the cultural interpretation given to that act (the ‘rhetorical device'). The essay examines the rhetorical device as a cultural artifact to construct and interpret the deliberate serious attempt(s) to kill a specific actor for political reasons having something to d…
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
Talmon's concept of 'totalitarian democracy' is generalized, to make it applicable to the variety of counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, we expanded Talmon's concept of political liberty into a more general desire for 'liberation,' offered in different forms by these movements. Accordingly, the movements are classified by two variables: the direction of liberation (inner or outer) to which they aspired, and the degre…
The Revival of the Occult and of Science Fiction
The Revival of the Occult and of Science Fiction
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
Talmon's concept of 'totalitarian democracy' is generalized, to make it applicable to the variety of counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, we expanded Talmon's concept of political liberty into a more general desire for 'liberation,' offered in different forms by these movements. Accordingly, the movements are classified by two variables: the direction of liberation (inner or outer) to which they aspired, and the degre…
The politicization of deviance
Using the Israeli case of Abu‐hatzira, this paper argues that processes of degradation, stigmatization and deviantization can be reversed. The case itself is documented to be followed by an interpretation clustered along two axes. It is argued, first, that Abu‐hatzira used in his favor an existing ethnic dispute in Israel, coupled with a religious factor. Second, reversal of deviantization can be achieved by politicizing "regular" deviance, subse…
Conflict resolution in an underground group
Underground movements in a struggle for political independence experience processes of crystallization as well as schism. Many times, severe struggles develop in these groups and focus on issues of leadership, operations, and ideology. The success of these movements in achieving their explicit goals depends on their ability to develop an effective mechanism(s) for inner conflict(s) resolution(s). Such inner conflicts and tensions can change, in t…
Howard S. Becker
Political assassinations as rhetorical devices
Political assassinations constitute a specific form of violence intended to take someone else's life against that person's wish. The act of killing (the ‘event') is distinguished from the cultural interpretation given to that act (the ‘rhetorical device'). The essay examines the rhetorical device as a cultural artifact to construct and interpret the deliberate serious attempt(s) to kill a specific actor for political reasons having something to d…
Positive and negative deviance
While it is quite clear that there IS a theoretical and empirical accumulation of knowledge in the area of the sociological study of deviance which supports the viability of the notion of "positive deviance," it also seems that the overwhelming majority of sociologists of deviance reject this possible paradigmatic shift. Hence, the voices "pushing" this shift are generally quiet, typically hesitant and the debate is made on the margins of the acc…
Moral Panics
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.: Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare; Includes a new chapter on the media, curren…
Deviance
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Deviance? Some Contemporary Debates Enter Durkheim Implications of Durkheim's Ideas Deviance and Social Control Moral Entrepreneurship Moral Panics Deviance, Change, and Stability1 Politics and Deviance Political Deviance VS. Political Justice Political Trials and Judging Deviants Criminals as Heroes and Political Criminals Power and Morality in Regular Deviance Two Illustrations Cultural Criminology…
Moral Panics
Moral panic refers to an exaggerated social reaction to what is typically constructed as a grave threat to an existing social order.
Deviance, Moral Boundaries And
Deviance and reactions to it define cultural moral boundaries. The origin of this idea and its implications are presented in this entry together with a few illustrations
Sociology (8 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works)