Elites and Panic: More to Fear than Fear Itself

Autor:	Lee Clarke, Caron Chess
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	History Middle class Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Self-concept Panic Power (social and political) Argument Anthropology Terrorism Elite medicine medicine.symptom Attribution Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Social Forces. 87:993-1014
ISSN:	1534-7605 0037-7732
Popis:	Attributions of panic are almost exclusively directed at members of the general public. Here, we inquire into the relationships between elites and panic. We review current research and theorizing about panic, including problems of identifying when it has occurred. We propose three relationships: elites fearing panic, elites causing panic and elites panicking. We use numerous examples, including our own research on the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, to illustrate how these relationships operate. The argument is evocative, not definitive. However, the conceptual utility of explicitly theorizing the relationships between elites and panic shows, among other things, how power works in disasters.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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