Moral Panics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18929665 |
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| Authors | David G Bromley (Virginia Commonwealth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm123.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4237380675 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The phrase “moral panic” was initially coined by Jock Young in an essay in Stanley Cohen's Images of Deviance (Cohen, 1971) and was subsequently developed theoretically and applied empirically in Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics (Cohen, 2002 [1972]). Cohen studied two British youth movements of the 1960s, the Mods and Rockers, whose feuding in 1964 triggered what he analyzed as a moral panic. According to Cohen, the episode he studied was not unique; indeed he proposed that societies are likely to experience moral panics periodically through their histories. He defined a moral panic as a condition that responds to a threat to established values or interests. The condition is analyzed and diagnosed by various spokespersons and experts, who make moral pronouncements and become the focus of sensationalized media coverage. Societal responses may lead to either subsidence or exacerbation of the situation
Criminology · Moral disengagement · Moral panic · Panic · Psychiatry · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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