Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere
Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere
This chapter provides an overview of key concepts, the rationale and aims of both the research and epistemological position that underpins the text. The theoretical background of public order/processual moral panic—on which this book relies—is described in some detail, including, origins, moral panic’s broad appeal and endurance across the social sciences and humanities, the choice of eighteenth-century London as a suitable (or unsuitable) site for historical examination, and the three discrete historical case studies—chosen to be as analogous as possible to Cohen’s original treatment. Methodology is also touched upon in terms of the primary sources found and used, followed by a chapter synopsis.
History, Social History, Cultural History, Social Theory, Criminology, Criminological History, Folk Devils, Moral Panic, London, Long Eighteenth-Century, Public Sphere, Stanley Cohen, Habermas
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Hamerton, Christopher
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22 November 2022
Hamerton, Christopher
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Hamerton, Christopher
(2022)
Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere.
In,
Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere: The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London.
1 ed.
London.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14883-5_1).
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This chapter provides an overview of key concepts, the rationale and aims of both the research and epistemological position that underpins the text. The theoretical background of public order/processual moral panic—on which this book relies—is described in some detail, including, origins, moral panic’s broad appeal and endurance across the social sciences and humanities, the choice of eighteenth-century London as a suitable (or unsuitable) site for historical examination, and the three discrete historical case studies—chosen to be as analogous as possible to Cohen’s original treatment. Methodology is also touched upon in terms of the primary sources found and used, followed by a chapter synopsis.
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History, Social History, Cultural History, Social Theory, Criminology, Criminological History, Folk Devils, Moral Panic, London, Long Eighteenth-Century, Public Sphere, Stanley Cohen, Habermas
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