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Barry Glassner

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Bachelors Sociology University of Connecticut

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According to Wikipedia, Barry Glassner is a professor of sociology and author or co-author of nine books, including The Culture of Fear, which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He says that many of Americans' concerns and fears are largely unfounded. In it, Glassner decries: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous ... " A new and enlarged edition updated for the Trump era was published in late 2018. In the years since, Glassner discussed the new edition on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program and Comedy Central's "Jim Jeffries Show." He applied the book's analysis to the Covid pandemic as well.

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Barry Glassner's Published Works

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Published Works

Liquid Fear (2009) (340)
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (2001) (330)
Fitness and the postmodern self. (1989) (145)
How Jews avoid alcohol problems. (1980) (123)
Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights (1987) (97)
Life events and early and late onset of bipolar disorder. (1983) (64)
Clinical Sociology (1979) (58)
Narrative Techniques of Fear Mongering (2014) (56)
Fit for Postmodern Selfhood (1990) (53)
The Qualitative-quantitative distinction in the social sciences (1989) (50)
Participant Observation With Children (1979) (49)
Students Under Stress (2019) (46)
Variations in attitudes toward homosexuality. (1976) (44)
A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences (1985) (36)
Role loss and working-class manic depression. (1979) (36)
Drugs in Adolescent Worlds (1987) (31)
A NOTE ON THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF JUVENILE VS. ADULT JURISDICTION (1983) (31)
The Construction of Fear (1999) (29)
Bodies/Why We Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It) (1988) (29)
Qualitative sociology as everyday life (2000) (28)
A durkheimian hypothesis on stress. (1983) (24)
Where Meanings Get Constructed (2000) (24)
Library Research as Fieldwork: A Strategy for Qualitative Content Analysis. (1982) (21)
Social locations and interpretations: how Jews define alcoholism. (1984) (20)
Bodies : overcoming the tyranny of perfection (1992) (15)
In the name of health (2002) (13)
A Psychosocial Study of Early‐Onset Bipolar Disorder (1985) (13)
7 Jewish-Americans and Alcohol Processes of Avoidance and Definition (1985) (10)
A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools (2018) (9)
Our Studies, Ourselves Sociologists' Lives and Work (2003) (8)
Can Labeling Theory Be Saved?*,1 (1978) (7)
Essential interactionism: On the intelligibility of prejudice (1980) (7)
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong (2007) (7)
Kid Society (1976) (7)
Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights.@@@Kids, Drugs, and Crime. (1988) (6)
Introduction: Quantification and Enlightenment (1989) (5)
Clinical Applications of Sociology in Health Care (1981) (5)
An Essay on Iterative Social Time (1982) (5)
Jewish-Americans and Alcohol (1985) (5)
Why do Adolescents Use Drugs (1987) (4)
Career Crash: America's New Crisis-And Who Survives (1994) (4)
Introduction: Ask what you can do for AI (1986) (3)
The Body in Everyday Life.Sarah Nettleton , Jonathan Watson (2000) (2)
Children in Clinics: A Sociological Analysis of Medical Work With Children (Book). (1984) (2)
A Methodology for Listening (1987) (2)
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (2009) (2)
Children of the asylum (1977) (2)
The Making of Symbolic Interactionism.Paul Rock (1981) (1)
Is statistical inference appropriate to structuralism? (1983) (1)
Time and Aging: Conceptualization and Application in Sociological and Gerontological Research (1982) (1)
Studies of events. (1985) (1)
"The Only Place to Eat in Berkeley": Hank Rubin and the Pot Luck (2002) (1)
The transition from drug use and crime to noninvolvement: a case study. (1985) (1)
Alcohol Abuse as a State: Illustrations of the ‘Structuration Model’ (1984) (1)
Discourse in the Social Sciences: Strategies for Translating Models of Mental Illness (1981) (0)
Be Saved?*l (1978) (0)
Human Encounters in the Social World.Aron Gurwitch (1982) (0)
Book Review: A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences (1979) (0)
Seeing Social Worlds (1987) (0)
In Defense of Foxes (2003) (0)
Time and Aging: Conceptualization and Application in Sociological and Gerontological Research. (1985) (0)
Book Review:Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France. Ian Dowbiggin (1993) (0)
Modeling a Rigorous Qualitative Sociology@@@A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences. (1986) (0)
The medium must not deconstruct: a postmodern ethnography of USA Today Television Show (1991) (0)
Figure without a Ground@@@Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge. (1984) (0)
Culture of Fear and the Presidential Scare (2020) (0)
Reflections on Jeff Alexander ' s The Meanings of Social Life (2015) (0)
"They've Killed the President."@@@Rush to Judgment. (1976) (0)
Distributing and Understanding Drugs (1987) (0)
"Free Speech and Free Love: The Law and Literature of the First Amendment," with Hilary M. Schor, forthcoming in the Modern Language Association's Compendium on Law and Literature. (2007) (0)
Symposium on Alan Wolfe's “One Nation, after All” (1999) (0)
Book Reviews : Richard M. Pfeffer, Working for Capitalism. Columbia University Press, New York, 1979, 395 pp (1980) (0)
Correspondance: Will the Real Allan Bloom Please Stand Up? (1988) (0)
How Adolescents Use Drugs (1987) (0)
Why Adolescents Avoid Drugs: Light Users and Non-Users (1987) (0)
Competing Explanations: Epidemiology, Politics, Social Worlds (1987) (0)
Promises and Problems: A Rejoinder (1981) (0)
A Fallen Angel: The Status Insularity of the Female Alcoholic.Florence V. Ridlon (1989) (0)
Let's Investigate Jewish Alcoholism (1977) (0)
Seeing Defective Individuals (1987) (0)

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