Stanley Cohen, who lived from 1942 to 2013, was a South African-British sociologist and criminologist who became a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics after positions at Durham University, the University of Essex and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is best known within criminology for developing the concept of moral panic, describing how societies construct a group or activity as a threat to social values and then react to it out of proportion to the actual danger it poses, and for his later work examining how societies deny or minimize knowledge of atrocities and human suffering.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountJohannesburg, South Africa 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountKnown for developing the concept of moral panics and for early scholarship on emotional management 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountFolk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) 1 Connections
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Stanley Cohen (23 February 1942 - 7 January 2013) was a South African-British sociologist and criminologist, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, known for breaking academic ground on "emotional management", including the mismanagement of emotions in the form of sentimentality, overreaction, and emotional denial.
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Stanley Cohen (23 February 1942 - 7 January 2013) was a South African-British sociologist and criminologist, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, known for breaking academic ground on "emotional management", including the mismanagement of emotions in the form of sentimentality, overreaction, and emotional denial.
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Stanley Cohen (23 February 1942 - 7 January 2013) was a South African-British sociologist and criminologist, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, known for breaking academic ground on "emotional management", including the mismanagement of emotions in the form of sentimentality, overreaction, and emotional denial.
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He is also known for developing the concept moral panics.
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Cohen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1942, son of a Lithuanian businessman.
Work section, Folk Devils and Moral Panic subsection
Cohen's 1972 study (Folk Devils and Moral Panics) of the UK popular media and social reaction to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon is widely regarded by British criminologists as one of the most influential works in the field in the last forty years.
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known for developing the concept moral panics
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