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Explore 24 books like Moral Panics by Kenneth Thompson — a handpicked selection united by Social Psychology, Media Studies, Popular Culture, and Sociology.

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The Age of American Unreason — Susan Jacoby

The Age of American Unreason

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

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An Ordinary Age Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Stargazing — Ferris, Kerry O.

Ferris, Kerry O.

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Watching Murder ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization — Simon Cottee

Watching Murder ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Fans A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging — Michael Bond

Fans A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity — Tema Milstein

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Upgrade Culture and Technological Change The Business of the Future — Adam Richard Rottinghaus

Upgrade Culture and Technological Change The Business of the Future

Adam Richard Rottinghaus

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

The Jew’s Body — Sander L. Gilman

The Jew’s Body

Sander L. Gilman

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Stranger Things Psychology Life Upside Down — Travis Langley

Stranger Things Psychology Life Upside Down

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

In Real Life Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age — Nev Schulman

In Real Life Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media — Elizabeth Marshall

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Elizabeth Marshall

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Zucked Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — Roger McNamee

Zucked Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

Animating Difference Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children — C. Richard King

Animating Difference Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children

C. Richard King

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Popular Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia — Tobias Becker

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

Themes: Media Studies • Popular Culture • Sociology

Trigger Points Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America — Mark Follman

Trigger Points Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

The Secret History of Food Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat — Matt Siegel (Food writer)

The Secret History of Food Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat

Matt Siegel (Food writer)

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Hillbilly A Cultural History of an American Icon

Anthony Harkins

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Cassandra Speaks When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes — Elizabeth Lesser

Cassandra Speaks When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Elizabeth Lesser

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance — Hongwei Bao

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication — Anita L. Vangelisti

The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

Anita L. Vangelisti

Themes: Social Psychology • Media Studies • Sociology

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages — Frances Gies

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Better Boys, Better Men The New Masculinity that Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency — Andrew Reiner

Better Boys, Better Men The New Masculinity that Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know — Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

Malcolm Gladwell

Themes: Social Psychology • Popular Culture • Sociology

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Social Psychology, Media Studies, Popular Culture — the same threads that run through Moral Panics by Kenneth Thompson. Among the authors featured: Susan Jacoby, Rainesford Stauffer, Ferris, Kerry O., Simon Cottee, and others.

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