How long does it take to read Folk Devils and Moral Panics the Creation of the Mods and Rockers?
Stanley Cohen, Victoria de los Ángeles Boschiroli
Folk Devils and Moral Panics the Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen, Victoria de los Ángeles Boschiroli takes about 5 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 284 pages, about 78,100 words. Written for young adults.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks 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. Fanned 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. Full of sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon"--
Subjects: Youth, great britain, Deviant behavior, Case studies, Subculture, Young adults, Moral panics
