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Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers is a 1972 sociology book by Stanley Cohen. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the first book to define the social theory of moral panic . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
First to name the phenomenon, Stanley Cohen investigated a series of "moral panics" in his 1972 book Folk Devils and Moral Panics. [7] In the book, Cohen describes the reaction among the British public to the seaside rivalry between the "mod" and "rocker" youth subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s. In a moral panic, Cohen says, "the untypical is ...
Cohen's 1972 study (Folk Devils and Moral Panics) of the UK popular media and social reaction to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon is widely regarded by British criminologists as one of the most influential works in the field in the last forty years.
In a 2014 study, [citation needed] Cohen's theory of the moral panic was applied to the media reaction to the Columbine massacre. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two students from Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, went on a shooting spree which resulted in the deaths of 15 people. News reports in the weeks ...
Moral Panic investigates three moral panics related to child molestation in the United States, the first of which occurred from 1908 to 1916, the second from 1935 to 1955, and the third which started in 1976 and continued to the end of the century. In the book, Jenkins describes how mass media, law-enforcement agencies, legislators and other ...
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The moral panic over a scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics set off a firestorm of outrage from religious conservatives and politicians who believed the ...
The sociologist Stanley Cohen was led by his retrospective study of the mods and rockers conflict to develop the term "moral panic".In his 1972 study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, [7] he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [9]