A Risk Society of Moral Panic
The US in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toby Miller (0000-0002-4957-7770, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 299-318 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174321906778531682 |
| OpenAlex | W1999206698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 44 |
This essay examines risk society and moral panic as tools for analyzing the irrationality of the contemporary US, and applies them to the construction of young people as a social problem. Although today’s risk society and moral panic are closely tied to the current economic crisis, I argue that youth has long been a key site for understanding US anxieties
Anxiety · Criminology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Irrationality · Moral panic · Panic · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Psychiatry · Rationality · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse
Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology
It’s Better to Overreact
Kinderculture
The Child and other cultural inventions
Movies, delinquency, and crime.
The Digital Sublime
The Retreat of the State
Setting the Public Fear Agenda
Stealing Innocence
Bowling Alone
A Companion to Media Studies
A Will of Their Own
Powers of Freedom
Is There Life After Death
Crime, Capitalism and the `Risk Society
When your child grows up too fast’
Adolescents and Their Music
The New Temperance
The Politics of Aging
A Social History of the Media
Cultivating Optimism in Childhood and Adolescence
A Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Working Class
The Rise and Fall of Risk Reporting
American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality
Metakinesis
Introduction—The Politics of Civic Education
Educating the “Good” Citizen
Risk and panic in late modernity
Moral panic versus the risk society
For a Practical Aesthetics
Marketing the Marriage 'Solution
The Marriage 'Solution'
On the Actuarial Gaze
The couch and the clinic The cultural authority of popular psychiatry and psychoanalysis
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |