Driving in Saudi Arabia is solely a male activity. Saudi women are forbidden to drive regardless of the continuing protests against the ban. This study applies Stanley Cohen's theory of moral panics to the Saudi ban on women driving. In this thesis, I reframe this concept as a gendered ...
from “You can’t prove it won’t happen!” In fact, these Baptists’ position issonon-scientific andsoextreme – a conspiracy theory about math and code – and is already calling for physical violence, that I will do something I would normally not do and question their motives as well....
from “You can’t prove it won’t happen!” In fact, these Baptists’ position issonon-scientific andsoextreme – a conspiracy theory about math and code – and is already calling for physical violence, that I will do something I would normally not do and question their motives as well....
Even though every new major technology has led to more jobs at higher wages throughout history, each wave of this panic is accompanied by claims that “this time is different” – 会this发生is the time it will finally happen, 的this技术对人类劳动进行锤击。然而,它从未发生过。 is the techno...
administrators against alumni, this department versus that. But that doesn’t happen anymore: Thanks to the homogenizing effects of social media, all of these constituencies tend to be drinking the same bathwater from the same troughs, and so get caught up in the same social panics at the sam...
I don’t know about you, but I am old enough to remember a time when the left had lots of good things to say about Mao. So there’s no point in trying to tell me it didn’t happen. I lived through it and talked to many leftists with those attitudes.Weekend...
ChatGPT is the new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI that can write essays, solve complex problems, compose song lyrics, do homework, and more. It has launched yet another moral panic as many teachers, parents, and even some teens are convinced that students will use th...
(Scenario 1) Two to five million people might lose their jobs, thus livelihood? No problem. That’s what we want to happen. (Scenario 2) A few hundred billionaires are inconvenienced by the burdensome emotion of “worry” without taking any actual losses? We’ve got to do someth...
Jenkins P (2009) Failure to launch: why do some social issues fail to detonate moral panics? British Journal of Sociology 49(1): 35-47.Jenkins, P. (2009). Failure to launch: Why do some social issues fail to detonate moral panics? British Journal of Criminology, 49, 35-47....