{"title":"Stanley Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanley Cohen’s works delve into the complexities of social control, morality, and human behaviour, offering profound insights into the tensions between society and deviance. His writings challenge readers to reconsider conventional narratives through meticulous analysis and compelling case studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring themes across \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003epsychology\u003c\/em\u003e, and social critique, Cohen’s books engage with topics such as moral panics, identity, and denial, making them essential for those interested in understanding the dynamics of power and social reaction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"states-of-denial-by-stanley-cohen-9780745623924","title":"States of Denial","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognise their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDo these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organisations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStates of Denial\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organised atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000755667180,"sku":"9780745623924","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12596373482453.jpg?v=1763302141"},{"product_id":"folk-devils-and-moral-panics-by-stanley-cohen-9781138834743","title":"Folk Devils and Moral Panics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Richly documented and convincingly presented'\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seekers, and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen’s classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term ‘moral panic’ into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition or group as a threat to societal values and interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further by identifying the very fault lines of power in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of sharp insight and analysis, \u003cem\u003eFolk Devils and Moral Panics\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. 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Moving between America, Europe, and Asia, Cohen recounts moments shared with artists, writers, jurists, and financiers, including Alexander Calder, Joseph Heller, Robert Caro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Yehuda Hanani, and members of the Rothschild family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures appear not as distant icons but as sharp, human presences—brilliant, eccentric, generous, and flawed. Cohen's life unfolds like a performance, shaped less by planning than by intensity: conversations, friendships, arguments, and coincidences that flare briefly and leave lasting marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith wit, candour, and an eye for the telling detail, he captures a vast social and creative network spanning the mid-twentieth century to the present. 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