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Mediated scandals as social dramas: Transforming the moral order in Finland

In this article we apply Viktor Turner's ideas on liminality and social dramas to scandals involving the Finnish political and economic elites that have occurred since the early 1970s. We suggest that mediated scandals are transformative social dramas through which society's moral codes ar...

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Published in:	Acta sociologica 2013-11, Vol.56 (4), p.295-308
Main Authors:	Kantola, Anu, Vesa, Juho
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Subjects:	Chief executive officers Cold War Cold wars Economic Elites Elites Ethical codes Ethics Ethics and moral life Finland Journalism Liminality Mass Media Effects Media Morality Political elites Political order Political parties Politicians Risk Scandals Sexual Harassment Social Change Social conditions & trends Society Sociology Sociology of knowledge and ethics Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture Transgression Turner, Victor
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