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	Culture of fear - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the discipline of sociology, a culture of fear is a generalized societal climate of unease and even panic, which shapes social interactions and public policy.
		In Culture of Fear and Politics of Fear, he uses examples such as the birth control pill Panic of 1995 to illustrate how terror spontaneously emerges in a population.
		Supporters of the idea of government-instigated fear culture also accuse the same government of downplaying issues that are worthy of fear, such as the ill effects of asbestos and lead paint.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Culture_of_fear (459 words)

	Culture of Fear book review (Skeptical Inquirer January 2000)
		News media may use these fears to earn higher ratings, politicians may play on our fears during elections, and perhaps, in a sense, even lobbyists for special interest groups may exchange fear for increased fund-raising.
		While the airline traveler may feel uncomfortable when turbulence is encountered, or when recalling that she is many thousands of feet over ground in a flying, metal tube with wings, fears of crashes, collisions, and death are greatly exaggerated.
		The average person's probability of dying in an air crash is about 1 in 4 million, or roughly the same as winning the jackpot in a state lottery." One reason the general public may continue to fear flying is that journalists often confuse incidence for rates.
	www.csicop.org /si/2000-01/fear.html (886 words)

	The Culture of Fear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He suggests that the public, already fearing the worst, was ready for bad news, which resulted in the unanticipated reaction to the Mars invasion broadcast.
		The fear for our children is given its own chapter, and he discusses the popular perspective that America's children face grave dangers, hyped regularly in TV documentaries and in newspapers.
		He demonstrates, for example, that teen gambling and Internet addictions, are less prevalent than feared, and when it becomes an actual problem, is usually accompanied by other serious mental or situational conditions that are more likely to be the real problem.
	www.strugglingteens.com /archives/2003/10/culturefearbr.html (775 words)

	Culture of fear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Culture of fear is a term that refers to a perceived prevalence of fear and anxiety in public discourse and relationships, and how this may affect the way people interact with one another as individuals and as democratic agents.
		In this context, the "culture of fear" is purportedly generated by the Bush Administration and its allies, in a top-down effort to increase support for strong military and domestic security operations.
		The idea of a society-wide "culture of fear" might be perceived by liberal allies and conservative opponents as a shorthand for cultural manipulation for conservative political purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_fear (1760 words)

	apophenia: growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace
		And so kids are taught to fear their community and, after they begin to mature, they become objects of fear.
		I wouldn't constrain the "culture of fear" to the US alone, but I do think there is a lot to the idea of "fear".
		Fear of the lurking perves is a handy excuse for continuing an adultism need to control.
	www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2005/11/02/growing_up_in_a.html (5502 words)

	Culture of Fear - Achenblog
		Yesterday's panicky response to a rogue airplane is a reminder that we've become a culture of fear.
		Fear is institutionalized, ritualized, with an elaborate protocol.
		If we didn't fear terrorism, we'd be afraid of something else: the Ebola virus, the flu, a tsunami, a stock market crash, obesity, a snakehead invasion, not having a living will -- we've feared all these things in the very recent past, during those fleeting moments in which we've forgotten to be afraid of terrorism.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /achenblog/2005/05/culture_of_fear.html (4184 words)

	Julie Leung: Seedlings & Sprouts: Culture of fear, culture of safety, culture of control, culture of faith
		The culture of fear is devastating; it is not the same as safety.
		This generation of parents is trying to right the wrongs of having to deal with their parents' disfunction and subsequent breakdowns -- so they have consciously decicded to be all about their kids instead of being all about their own self help (they probably went to therapy early on to deal with their parents' issues).
		We need a culture of faith for our families, so we can be free from fear and control, free to listen and learn and love.
	www.julieleung.com /archives/002049.html (1447 words)

	A Culture of Fear because of Fear - SciForums.com
		So in some cultures that have histories of violence, conservative behaviour is enshrined in both religion and law, simply because man fears man and mostly mans potential to behave badly.
		I would suggest that this in the main is a fear of themselves reflected on to others.....because having been at this particular coffee shop for a number of years I know most of the people as being no real cause for fear.
		So fear is something like the sexual urge inverting itself so that the organism experiencing it will re-orient itself to get rid of it and have it re-invert again to sex; cleverly serving the purpose of that species, that of staying together to procreate.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=42042 (1505 words)

	YogaJournal.Com: Living in an Age of Fear
		Fear is usually described as an emotional response to a perception of danger, which elicits certain neuromuscular and chemical reactions in the body.
		Hence, fear is an internal experience, a subjective response to the immediate moment or some future event; therefore, you should regard fear with objective skepticism and not treat it as an absolute truth.
		The proper response is threefold: continual mindfulness of the fear, deep compassion for the suffering it is causing, and cultivation of equanimity that allows you to stay with it.
	www.yogajournal.com /wisdom/890.cfm (3206 words)

	Professor Barry Glassner, The Man Who Knows About Fear in American Culture - A BuzzFlash Interview
		It's an interview to be patient with, because it provides the background for how Karl Rove and the Pentagon have harnessed the media to take advantage of a population that his been primed for obsessing about what may be LEAST threatening to them on a daily basis.
		And in terms of sociological dimension of this, high levels of fear and anxiety also create unfortunate social conditions, like people being more willing to give up civil liberties, like people not participating in the life of their community and political institutions and so forth.
		And now we're seeing fear as part of a political context, involving dark skinned Arabic men are to be feared.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/04/10_glassner.html (3820 words)

	mental jog » culture of fear
		What’s more interesting is the culture of fear that pervades Malaysian society and its effects on public debate.
		Fear, of what they will do to you if you point out the corruption that blights our society.
		Fear, of racial violence and chaos if you do not return them to power.
	lucialai.org /2006/10/19/culture-of-fear (1640 words)

	RMMW Statement on TV News and the Culture of Violence
		Cultural habits and values are also susceptible to television's influence and TV news images can drag us into wars, out of wars and elect our leaders.
		The effects are cumulative, producing what George Gerbner calls the "Mean World Syndrome," where viewers perceive the world as a more fearful place than it actually is. Each exposure to media violence becomes a one part-per-billion dose of more alienation.
		Millions are afraid to go out at night, do not trust their neighbors and feel estranged from society in proportion to their media exposure.
	www.bigmedia.org /texts6.html (738 words)

	Beyond a Culture of Fear
		Manson was the brunt of criticism by many community members and the media for somehow inciting the kind of violence that led to the tragic 1999 incident in Littleton, Colorado where two Columbine High School students killed twelve students and a teacher using handguns.
		The phenomenon of misplaced fear in American culture is not uncommon, asserts sociologist Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things.
		This practice gives us the basis for moving beyond a world of fear, violence, and war because it is a practice based in the embrace of all life and an acceptance of the forces of ecology at work in our lives.
	www.earthlight.org /2002/essay47_deboer.html (2376 words)

	Bear Left!: Culture of Fear
		Moore speaks with Canadians who have had their homes invaded while they slept, but continue to leave the door open; and with Americans who have never experienced any such trespass, but have their guns loaded, just in case.
		Moore places the blame instead on a culture of fear fueled by politicians and the media.
		I get the sense from watching Moore's work that he is trying to make up in the short time he has for the total lack of responsibility the major media has exhibited.
	www.bear-left.com /original/2002/1111culture.html (1074 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - 'Culture of life' is a culture of fear
		The tragic case of Terri Schiavo writes a new chapter in the ongoing American saga that is often titled "the culture war." It's no longer just about a so-called "right to life." The Christian right insists that it's about a "culture of life." They've been waving that slogan around for years.
		When they talk about a "culture of life," though, the right-wingers are trying to tell us that we're missing the point.
		Their "culture of life" is really a culture of fear.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2005040309.html (1231 words)

	Common Good: Safeguarding Americans from a Legal Culture of Fear
		Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on the issue of "Safeguarding Americans from a Legal Culture of Fear." I believe these hearings will play a significant role in raising public awareness of this issue, and the need for a basic shift in approach to restore predictability to our legal system.
		In schools, teachers are unable to maintain discipline in their classrooms, fearful that they may be sued by students or parents.
		It is their healthcare that is increasingly unaffordable, their schools that are disrupted by disorder, their sympathy that is chilled by fears that someone may misinterpret a kind word, or an arm around the shoulder of a crying child...
	cgood.org /schools-reading-cgpubs-speeches-14.html (1557 words)

	Bowling for Columbine : Library : The Culture of Fear
		Indeed, Windolf omitted from his estimates new-fashioned afflictions that have yet to make it into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association: ailments such as road rage, which afflicts more than half of Americans, according to a psychologist’s testimony before a congressional hearing in 1997.
		Every few months for the past several years it seems we discover a new category of people to fear: government thugs in Waco, sadistic cops on Los Angeles freeways and in Brooklyn police stations, mass-murdering youths in small towns all over the country.
		Fear of killer kids remained very much in the air nonetheless.
	www.bowlingforcolumbine.com /library/fear/index.php (1496 words)

	The Culture of Fear (1999)
		At the family level, the fear extends beyond one's person: to spouse and children, especially children.
		Road-rage cannot be generalized to public fear either: even if it did exist, you have to be one of those rare people who stop to engage in a verbal confrontation with another driver to be vulnerable to that.
		Glassner's entire thesis because it appears that a fear of fls is actually pretty well justified relative to fear of whites (and both should be pretty remote fears for the average American compated to things he/she should be really afraid of, like getting in the car and driving).
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/c/culture-of-fear.html (3138 words)

	Support Teresa Chambers Reply Page
		Washington, DC — Workers within the U.S. Department of Interior live in a "culture of fear" where "hatchet people" mete out punishment based on office politics, according to an agency-wide survey and investigative report quietly posted by the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG) late last week.
		Devaney recommends that steps be taken to reduce "the fear of reprisal" and to improve the consistency of disciplinary actions taken.
		"The culture of fear in Interior starts at the top," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch whose organization's attorneys will be questioning Secretary Norton and other top Interior officials under oath later this month in the Chambers case.
	www.honestchief.com /nj/CultureofFeara.htm (339 words)

	Colombia: The Culture of Fear
		Israeli physician Ruchama Marton, who has been at the forefront of investigation of the use of torture by the security forces of her own country, points out that while confessions obtained by torture are of course meaningless, the real purpose is not confession.
		Rather, it is silence, "silence induced by fear." "Fear is contagious," she continues, "and spreads to the other members of the oppressed group, to silence and paralyze them.
		Throughout these grim years, nothing has been more inspiring than the courage and dedication of those who have sought to expose and overcome the culture of fear in their suffering countries.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/other/culture-of-fear.html (1814 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Culture of Fear, by Barry Glassner, Paperback, 1 ED
		The Culture of Fear diagnoses the predominant pathology of our age and provides a passionate cry for a return to rationality.
		Fear is the driving force and the major psychological component of terror.
		Fear is conducive to regressive behaviors by responsible adults.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0465014909 (1196 words)

	Culture of Fear
		Adoption of ‘Best Practices’ is a public commitment to move an existing non-profit towards one that reflects more clearly the “culture of responsibility”.
		The goal of such a change in corporate culture, according to ‘Best Practices” is: “...
		In his November 28th letter to Metropolitan Herman, Archbishop Job of Chicago references the culture of fear that is pervading the OCA.
	www.ocanews.org /news/CultureofFear.html (2005 words)

	Bull City Mutterings: The Culture of Fear
		I guess I’m most fascinated by how fear has been and is being used to perpetuate prejudices.
		Glassner notes a book that documents that, in fourteenth-century Europe, the dangers of impure drinking water were recognized long before it became convenient to accuse Jews of poisoning wells and people became preoccupied with clean water.
		Glassner points out that fears are "perpetuated by excessive attention to dangers that a small percentage of fl men create for other people, and by a relative lack of attention to dangers that a majority of fl men face themselves." He notes that "many more fl men are casualties of crime than perpetrators."
	www.durham-nc.com /reynblog/2006/06/culture-of-fear.html (410 words)

	Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear \| Catalog \| Brazos Press: A Division of Baker Publishing Group
		Similarly, the first decade of the twenty-first century ushered in a "culture of fear"--especially in a post-9/11 world.
		Instead of allowing their own or others' fears motivate them, readers will be encouraged to forsake their 'ethic of safety' for an 'ethic of risk.' This new way of living manifests itself in hospitality, peacemaking, and generosity.
		His diagnosis of a pervasive system of anxiety, rooted in Enlightenment reductionism, is on target; but more important is his assessment of the capacity of communitarian courage to act as a transformative alternative to fear.
	www.brazospress.com /followingjesusinacultureoffear (717 words)

	COURSE OPTION THREE: The Culture of Fear: U
		In particular, we will examine the use of the media in creating what recent critics correctly or incorrectly describe as a „culture of fear.“ Readings and lectures will be primarily in English, with some texts and discussions in German.
		To determine the viability of the "culture of fear" thesis developed by Barry Glassner and Michael Moore in the post-September 11th environment
		To examine the discourse of race in the context of U.S. culture as it relates to and as it is distinct from the "culture of fear" thesis
	www.tc.umn.edu /~haake004/cultureoffear (1530 words)

	Xblog : Security and the Culture of Fear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For example, in Arab culture (bets that there are a lot of Arab names on that list?) most of the population’s first names are drawn from a very small set of names of religious and cultural figures, with an even smaller subset being the most common.
		The truth that we all know is that a lot of the security measures that have been instituted since the 9/11 attacks, particularly those related to air travel, serve more to instill the public with confidence about their safety rather than to provide a real security benefit.
		Appealing to the public’s irrational fears is good business, regardless of whether you are a politician tyring to convince people that only you can protect them, a news outlet trying to get eyeballs, or Roger Corman.
	xblog.xman.org /articles/2006/10/05/security-and-the-culture-of-fear (798 words)

	culture of fear \| Anthropology.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This grim analysis points to how a "culture of terror" may develop in situations like these, when the state of war erodes any sense of a future outside of the war and causes youth to become disillusioned.
		In observing children, researchers found reflections of war conditions acted out in play, while teenagers spoke with a nostalgic air about school but saw it as pointless because there was no economically viable future in education.
		Cultural anthropologist, Charles Hirschkind, spent some time studying how Egyptians are using Islamic sermons recorded on cassette tapes in their daily lives.
	anthropology.net /tags/culture_of_fear (584 words)

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