Social Rage: Emotion and Cultural Conflict

by Berry,Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9780815330899
• ISBN10: 0815330898
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book defines and describes the meaning of social rage by examining the influence of social forces such as economic conditions, population diversity and power shifts. The role of media, in particular its encouragement of social rage through sensationalism, is also handled in this book. The author apporaches the issue of social rage on both an individual and a collective level with the goal of revealing its motivations and its impact.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction to Social Rage	1	(28)
The Measures and Meanings of Social Rage: Reality versus Perceptions	29	(24)
Social Rage and the Survivalist Right	53	(36)
Social Rage against Crime, Criminals, and Crime Control	89	(30)
Social Rage and Minority Relations	119	(30)
Social Rage and the Religious Fringe	149	(36)
Social Rage and Politics	185	(28)
Social Rage and the Media	213	(20)
Social Rage: Summary, Final Thoughts, and Recommendations	233	(32)
Appendix A Field Notes, Tokyo Metropolitan University	265	(4)
Appendix B Bumper Sticker and Radio Talk-Show Surveys by Pacific Lutheran University Students	269	(6)
Author Index	275	(2)
Subject Index	277