Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance [electronic resource] /
Jenkins, Timothy.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The presuppositions of the various parties -- pt. 2. The events and their rationale.
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.
Festinger, Leon, 1919-1989.
Culture.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology of Religion.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Anthropology.
Crime and Society.