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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance / by Timothy Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Timothy.
- Series:
- Palgrave pivot
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Religion and sociology.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Sociology of Culture.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Crime and Society.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology of Culture.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Anthropology.
- Crime and Society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The presuppositions of the various parties
- pt. 2. The events and their rationale.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349473281
- 1349473286
- 9781137357601
- 1137357606
- OCLC:
- 852757164
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