Evil Invariables and Moral Panic
Case Estonia; Pp. 71–89
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20205871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jüri Saar (University of Tartu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-89 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1406-0922 • E-ISSN: 1736-7514 |
| Publisher | Estonian Academy Publishers (PUBLISHER • EE) |
| DOI | 10.3176/tr.2010.1.05 |
| OpenAlex | W2106792413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The aim of the article is to introduce and provide evidence of using a novel type of indicators (evil invariables) when tackling the negative phenomena spreading in the population of Estonia. According to the working definition, evil invariable is â a numerical indicator, which describes the prevalence of a certain unfavourable social process and participants therein inadequately, because it has been constructed proceeding from hidden goalsâ . The article highlights the main characteristics of the evil invariables and the specificities of construing thereof; it also presents hierarchy of evil invariables, relying on size and their proportion to the whole population. The evil invariables are compared to moral panic, focussing on similarities and differences of those phenomena. At length three prominent evil invariables related to Estonia: the number of Russian citizens, the number of the HIV infected persons and the number of victims of trafficking in humans, were considered
Anxiety · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Moral panic · Panic · Political science · Psychiatry · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |