Moral Panics The Social Construction of Deviance

"They maintain in 'Moral Panics' that the spread of apparently irrational ideas can be explained as a rational response to variations in sociological conditions....'Moral Panics' is a convincing demonstration of the worth of social theory which makes only minimal claims about the psychology of individuals and focuses instead on the social environment. It is also, in virtue of its clarity of presentation, a demonstration of the limits of this sociological approach."Goode, Erich is the author of 'Moral Panics The Social Construction of Deviance', published 1994 under ISBN 9780631189053 and ISBN 063118905X.