Flavor of the Month Why Smart People Fall for Fads

Name: Flavor of the Month Why Smart People Fall for Fads
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ISBN: 9780520246263

ISBN-10: 0520246268

ISBN-13: 9780520246263

Edition: 2006

Authors: Joel Best

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While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments--novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease. Some of these trends prove to be lasting innovations, but others--after absorbing extraordinary amounts of time and money--are…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 214
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.85" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has published more than twenty books on social problems and deviance, including Threatened Children , Random Violence , Damned Lies and Statistics , and The Student Loan Mess (with Eric Best.)



Acknowledgments



The Illusion of Diffusion



Why We Embrace Novelties: Conditions That Foster Institutional Fads



The Fad Cycle: Emerging



The Fad Cycle: Surging



The Fad Cycle: Purging



Fad Dynamics



Becoming Fad-Proof


Notes


References


Index