Frank Furedi
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Hungarian sociologist
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Frank Furedi's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Kent
- Masters Sociology University of Kent
- Bachelors Sociology University of Kent
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Furedi is a Hungarian-Canadian academic and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He is well known for his work on sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, paranoid parenting and sociology of knowledge.
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Published Works
- Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2003) (430)
- Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child (2002) (259)
- Celebrity Culture (2010) (187)
- Culture of Fear (1997) (145)
- Introduction to the marketisation of higher education and the student as consumer (2010) (144)
- Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating (2009) (134)
- The changing meaning of disaster (2007) (131)
- Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone (2004) (129)
- Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Confronting 21st Century Philistinism (2006) (126)
- The Mau Mau War in Perspective (1989) (102)
- Fear and Security: A Vulnerability-led Policy Response (2008) (97)
- Politics of Fear (2005) (86)
- The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race (1998) (84)
- The African Crowd in Nairobi: Popular Movements and Élite Politics (1973) (77)
- The only thing we have to fear is the 'culture of fear' itself NEW ESSAY: How human thought and action are being stifled by a regime of uncertainty. (2007) (75)
- Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust (2013) (66)
- Colonial wars and the politics of Third World nationalism (1994) (66)
- Precautionary Culture and the Rise of Possibilistic Risk Assessment (2009) (63)
- Turning Academics into Teachers (1998) (60)
- Knowing me, knowing you: The rise of therapeutic professionalism in the education of adults (2005) (57)
- The end of professional dominance (2006) (55)
- Population and Development: A Critical Introduction (1997) (54)
- From the Narrative of the Blitz to the Rhetoric of Vulnerability (2007) (49)
- Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age (1992) (48)
- What’s Happened To The University?: A sociological exploration of its infantilisation (2016) (46)
- On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence (2011) (43)
- Authority: A Sociological History (2013) (36)
- Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (2007) (32)
- Populism and the European Culture Wars: The Conflict of Values between Hungary and the EU (2017) (31)
- The social composition of the Mau Mau movement in the white highlands (1974) (31)
- Mothers' experience of, and attitudes to, using infant formula in the early months (2005) (31)
- The new ideology of imperialism : renewing the moral imperative (1994) (31)
- What’s happened to the university? (2018) (27)
- Democracy and participation : popular protest and new social movements (2004) (27)
- The silent ascendancy of therapeutic culture in Britain (2002) (23)
- The New Ideology of Imperialism (1994) (23)
- The Silent War (1998) (21)
- Creating a breathing space: The political management of colonial emergencies (1993) (19)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-ASIAN OPINION AMONG AFRICANS IN NAKURU DISTRICT, KENYA (1974) (18)
- Reflections on the medicalisation of social experience (2004) (16)
- Medicalisation in a Therapy Culture (2008) (15)
- Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal (2013) (15)
- Mau Mau and Kenya: an analysis of a peasant revolt by WUNYABARI O. MALOBA Bloomington, IL and Oxford: Indiana University Press and James Currey, 1998. Pp. 228. £14.95 (pbk.). (1999) (14)
- Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu (2003) (14)
- Moral Panic and Reading: Early Elite Anxieties About the Media Effect (2016) (13)
- New Britain—A nation of victims (1998) (11)
- Socialisation as behaviour management and the ascendancy of expert authority (2009) (11)
- The Moral Condemnation of the South (1997) (10)
- Population and development (1997) (10)
- Social Distancing, Safe Spaces and the Demand for Quarantine (2020) (10)
- Heroes of the hour (2004) (9)
- Imperialism, academe and nationalism: Britain and university education for Africans, 1860-1960 (1998) (9)
- New Dimensions: The Growth of a Market in Fear (2007) (9)
- From Two Cultures to No Culture: C. P. Snow's Two Cultures Lecture Fifty Years On (2009) (8)
- Coping With Adversity: The Turn to the Rhetoric of Vulnerability (2007) (8)
- The objectification of fear and the grammar of morality (2011) (7)
- The Cultural Underpinning of Concept Creep (2016) (7)
- The demobilized African soldier and the blow to white prestige (2017) (7)
- Treat Employees like Adults (2005) (7)
- Britain's colonial wars: Playing the ethnic card (1990) (7)
- Britain's Colonial Emergencies and the Invisible Nationalists (1989) (6)
- Bringing Historical Dimensions Into the Study of Social Problems: The Social Construction of Authority (2015) (5)
- The moral crusade against paedophilia (2015) (5)
- Mothers’ experience of, and attitudes to, the use of infant formula for feeding babies (2005) (5)
- Why Borders Matter (2020) (4)
- First World War: Still No End in Sight (2014) (4)
- Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition (2014) (4)
- Interview with Frank Furedi (2006) (4)
- Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within (2016) (4)
- The Politicization of Life Style (2008) (3)
- Afterword: the downsizing of intellectual authority (2003) (3)
- Changing societal attitudes, and regulatory responses, to risk-taking in adult care (2011) (3)
- Book Review Symposium: Stefan Collini, What are Universities For? (2013) (3)
- Racism After Race-Relations - Miles,R (1995) (2)
- Land Reform and Nationalist Politics in Kenya (1974) (2)
- Kenyatta and Mau Mau@@@The Mau Mau War in Perspective. (1991) (2)
- Don't Touch! The Educational Story of a Panic ‐ By Heather Piper and Ian Stronach (2009) (2)
- THE FORMALISATION OF RELATIONSHIPS IN EDUCATION (2004) (2)
- Complaining Britain (1999) (2)
- Who Decides Europe’s Values? (2017) (1)
- Introduction: Scandals, Panics and Crusades (2013) (1)
- Putting Europe into Education (2012) (1)
- Modern Demonology: Ritual Abuse, Conspiracy and Cover-up (2013) (1)
- The diminished self (2013) (1)
- Authority: Augustus: a role model for authority through the ages (2013) (1)
- Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government by Nicholas Thomas (1995) (1)
- Drug Control and the Ascendancy of Britain’s Therapeutic Culture (2017) (1)
- 2030: war zone Amsterdam : imagining the unimaginable (2009) (1)
- The Authority of Public Opinion–why Weber declined to take part in the conversation (2022) (1)
- The rise of negative theories of authority (2013) (0)
- Judgement and the Moral Relevance of Borders (2020) (0)
- The Inflation of Abuse and the Rise of the Victim (2013) (0)
- Moral Crusades, Child Protection, Celebrities, and the Duty to Believe (2016) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1988) (0)
- The ultimate freedom (2014) (0)
- Authority: Thersites and the personification of anti-authority (2013) (0)
- The quest for a new etiquette (2016) (0)
- Authority: In the shadow of authoritarianism (2013) (0)
- Memory Wars or the Crusade Against the Past (2017) (0)
- The harms of the academy (2016) (0)
- Childhood at Risk (2013) (0)
- Why academic freedom must not be rationed: an argument against the freedom–security trade-off (2016) (0)
- Targeting Binary Thinking (2020) (0)
- Authority: By passing authority through the rationalisation of persuasion (2013) (0)
- Harry Thuku: An Autobiography. Nairobi, Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. 100. $1.60. (1971) (0)
- Trigger warnings: the performance of awareness (2016) (0)
- National Consciousness vs Denationalized Identity (2017) (0)
- Conclusion: final thoughts (2013) (0)
- On Tolerance by Frank Furedi (2019) (0)
- Anti-Populism and the Crisis of Valuation (2017) (0)
- Extending a Life with Meaning (2009) (0)
- Childhood at Risk: How Children Became So Precious (2013) (0)
- Your number's up (1999) (0)
- Hobbes and the problem of order (2013) (0)
- Growing-Up Disturbed (2018) (0)
- Politics Goes Personal (2020) (0)
- Reformation and the emergence of the problem of order (2013) (0)
- Authority: Authority transformed into sociology's cause (2013) (0)
- The Road to Ukraine (2022) (0)
- Medieval authority and the Investiture Contest (2013) (0)
- Unmasking Openness (2020) (0)
- Le mouvement ‘Mau-Mau’: Une révolte paysanne et anti-coloniale. By Robert Buijtenhuijs. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1972. Pp. 428. 25 Dutch Guilders. (1973) (0)
- ‘The Long War’: Who is Winning the Battle for Ideas? (2009) (0)
- Mau Mau from Below (1998) (0)
- Book Review: Lee Clarke (Ed.), Terrorism and Disaster: New Threats, New Ideas. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003. 241 pp. Cloth: $90.00 (US), ISBN 0—7623—1043—X (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Promiscuity of choice (2004) (0)
- Making Sense of Suicide Missions (2008) (0)
- The limits of the authority of the rational (2013) (0)
- What Happened to Radical Humanism (2009) (0)
- Authority: The rationalisation of authority (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Reinvention (2014) (0)
- The Americanization Of Social Science: Intellectuals And Public Responsibility In The Post-War United States – By D.P. Haney (2010) (0)
- Acknowledgement to reviewers (2010) (0)
- Taming public opinion and the quest for authority (2013) (0)
- Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India edited by Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks (1996) (0)
- Conclusion: How the Moral Crusade Harms Us All (2013) (0)
- Rome and the founding of authority (2013) (0)
- Conclusion (2020) (0)
- The Psychological Construction of the Illiberal Subject (2021) (0)
- Breaching the Public–Private Boundary (2020) (0)
- Jimmy Savile: Man, Monster, Celebrity (2013) (0)
- The culture of emotionalism (2013) (0)
- The Emergence of the Self in History (2019) (0)
- Verbal purifi cation: the diseasing of free speech (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya, 1870-1930 (1975) (0)
- Socrates and the quest for authority (2013) (0)
- Remembering the Past (2013) (0)
- Illiberal Liberalism: A Genealogy (2022) (0)
- Our Overdeveloped Sense of Vulnerability (2006) (0)
- The Challenge to Sovereignty, Democracy and Citizenship (2020) (0)
- Nineteenth-century authority on the defensive (2013) (0)
- Inventing New Borders for a Boundless World (2020) (0)
- Targeting privacy and informal relations (2013) (0)
- Book Review Symposium: Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries (2020) (0)
- Infant Feeding (1988) (0)
- Kenyatta—Myth and Reality (1973) (0)
- THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL FCRI 6413 (2004) (0)
- Struggle for Kenya - the Loss and Reasservation of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923 - Maxon,RM (1994) (0)
- Remembering the Past: Good Old Days — Bad Old Days (2013) (0)
- Review of the effectiveness of the controls on infant formula and follow-on formula, Literature Review (2009) (0)
- New Forms of Alienation (2019) (0)
- 13. Terrorism and the politics of fear (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Kevin Rozario The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and The Making of Modern America, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 313 ISBN: 13: 978—0-226—7250—3 (2008) (0)
- The Crisis of Authority and the Cult of the Judicial Inquiry (2013) (0)
- Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis. By David L. Altheide. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 2002. Pp. xi+223. (2002) (0)
- Why Hide Our Shared Values? : The problem of tradition (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Rozario, Kevin The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, £19 hbk (ISBN: 9780226725703) 313 pp (2010) (0)
- REVIEWS (2009) (0)
- Medieval claim-making and the sociology of tradition (2013) (0)
- Introduction: always in question (2013) (0)
- Borderline Identity Crisis (2020) (0)
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