Tightening the focus
Moral Panic, Moral Regulation and Liberal Government1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean P Hier (0000-0003-4273-0936, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-541 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01377.x |
| PMID | 21899526 |
| OpenAlex | W1552769204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 27 |
The purpose of this article is to tighten the focus of moral panic studies by clarifying and elaborating on an analytical framework that conceptualizes moral panic as a form of moral regulation. The first part of the article explains why moral panic should be conceptualized as a form of moral regulation. The second part presents a rejoinder to Critcher's (2009) critique of the widening focus of moral panic studies. The third part elaborates on the conceptual relationship between the sociologies of moral panic and moral regulation by offering fresh insights into the sociological and political importance of moral panic as a technique of liberal government
Anxiety · Criminology · Economics · Focus (optics · Government (linguistics · Moral disengagement · Moral panic · Moral psychology · Panic · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Moral Panic
Modern Folk Devils
Rock’n’roll, étiquetage et third-person effect
Measles, Moral Regulation and the Social Construction of Risk
I Wouldn’t Bring in Anything that Could Be Challenged”
The facts don’t work”
Spirals of Signification? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the German Doping Discourse
Avoiding the spotlight
Exclusion and Regulated Inclusion
The idea of moral panic – ten dimensions of dispute
Once again, a meth lab exploded and somebody died”
Global concerns, local negotiations and moral selves
Shifting risk to the frontline
In our family, we don’t watch those things’
Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police
Moralization and classification struggles over gentrification and the hipster figure in austerity Britain
Marginality and otherness
From Play to Peril
The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Moral Panic Studies
Anti-Polish Migrant Moral Panic in the UK
Moral Panic Studies, Normative Reductionism, and the Problem of Paradigmatic Rigidity
Expanding Moral Panic Theory to Include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs
Separate worlds
I don’t like guns but having one in Winnipeg right now would feel safer
Moral panic, moral regulation, and the civilizing process
Linking Moralisation and Class Identity
Conceptualising Social Types and Figures
Moral regulation as status politics
Monumental Panic
Moral regulation and a good moral panic
Moral panic and the new neoliberal compromise
Good moral panics? Normative ambivalence, social reaction, and coexisting responsibilities in everyday life
Moral Panic, Moral Breach
Analyzing Pluralized Moral Panics Using Morphological Framing
Polarizing Moral Panics
Deep culture in action
Governing morals
Foucault and Political Reason
Silencing science
Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety
Moral Panics
Powers of Freedom
Beyond folk devil resistance
Thinking beyond moral panic
Moral Regulation and Making-Up the New Person
The Anatomy Lesson
Widening The Focus
Signal crimes and signal disorders
Public/Private Service
Enemies Everywhere
Moral Panic
The Liberal Government of Unfreedom
Moral Capital
On the concept of moral panic
Rethinking 'Moral Panic' for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds
Risk and panic in late modernity
Moral panic versus the risk society
The Poverty of Social Control
A Social Structure of Many Souls
Raves, Risks and the Ecstacy Panic
Moral Panic and Social Theory
Conceptualizing Moral Panic through a Moral Economy of Harm
Another look at moral panics
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |