On Scandal

Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art

Ari Adut (University of Texas, Austin)

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English

Cambridge University Press
23 October 2008

Social & cultural history; Society & Social Sciences; Social, group or collective psychology

Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

Scandal is the quintessential public event. Here is the first general and comprehensive analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases in society, politics, and art, Ari Adut shows when wrong-doings generate scandals and when they do not. He focuses on the emotional and cognitive experience of scandals and the relationships among those who are involved in or exposed to them. This perspective explains variations in the effects, frequency, elicited reactions, outcomes, and strategic uses of scandals. On Scandal offers provocative accounts of the Oscar Wilde, Watergate, and Lewinsky affairs. Adut also employs the lens of scandal to address puzzles and questions regarding public life. Why is American politics plagued by sex scandals? What is the cause of the rise in political scandals in Western democracies? Why were Victorians sometimes very accommodating and other times very intolerant of homosexuality? What is the social logic of hypocrisy?

By: Ari Adut (University of Texas Austin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: No. 31
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9780521895897
ISBN 10: 0521895898
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 23 October 2008
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. The disruptive publicity of transgression; 2. The fall of Oscar Wilde; 3. The American presidency, imperial and imperiled; 4. Investigating corruption in France; 5. Sex and the American public sphere; 6. Provocation in art; Conclusion.

Ari Adut is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds postgraduate degrees from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Chicago, where he has also taught. His research has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.