Terry Ann Knopf teaches arts and media criticism at Boston University's Journalism Department. Earlier, she worked as a TV critic for the Miami Herald and the Patriot Ledger, and was also a correspondent at the Boston Globe specializing in the arts and media.
-Sociological studies of rumor are noted by their scarcity, thus
this book . . . is welcome. . . . [The] author presents a 'process'
model of racial disorder. This approach argues for the inclusion of
structural characteristics . . . as well as values . . . as
predisposing and necessary conditions for racial violence. Rumors
are seen as functionally related to these cleavages in the system
in that they confirm, intensify, and link hostile beliefs in both
racial groups. . . . This book deals with an important and
relatively neglected area of research and has its value as a
suggestion of where more . . . investigators will . . . begin.-
--Raymond J. Murphy, Contemporary Sociology
"Sociological studies of rumor are noted by their scarcity, thus
this book . . . is welcome. . . . [The] author presents a 'process'
model of racial disorder. This approach argues for the inclusion of
structural characteristics . . . as well as values . . . as
predisposing and necessary conditions for racial violence. Rumors
are seen as functionally related to these cleavages in the system
in that they confirm, intensify, and link hostile beliefs in both
racial groups. . . . This book deals with an important and
relatively neglected area of research and has its value as a
suggestion of where more . . . investigators will . . . begin."
--Raymond J. Murphy, Contemporary Sociology
"Sociological studies of rumor are noted by their scarcity, thus
this book . . . is welcome. . . . [The] author presents a 'process'
model of racial disorder. This approach argues for the inclusion of
structural characteristics . . . as well as values . . . as
predisposing and necessary conditions for racial violence. Rumors
are seen as functionally related to these cleavages in the system
in that they confirm, intensify, and link hostile beliefs in both
racial groups. . . . This book deals with an important and
relatively neglected area of research and has its value as a
suggestion of where more . . . investigators will . . . begin."
--Raymond J. Murphy, Contemporary Sociology
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