Socialisation as behaviour management and the ascendancy of expert authority: 2009 (Vor Kohnstammlezing) - Tapa blanda

10th Kohnstamm lecture

Frank Furedi (1947, Hungary) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent (UK), and has been labelled a 'controversial thinker' by the periodical Vrij Nederland. Furedi has written many books over the past few years, including Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (2007), in which he analyses the impact of terrorism after 9/11, and Paranoid parenting (2001), about how difficult it is for parents to raise their children today. He is the most frequently-cited sociologist in England. Other influential books from his hand include: Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2003), Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism (2004), Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right (2005).