Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern over some group or issue, in which the public reaction to such group or issue is disproportional to its actual threat. The concern is further fueled by mass media and moral entrepreneurs. Moral panics may result in legislative and/or long-lasting cultural ...
Examples of moral panic include the belief in widespread abduction of children by predatory pedophiles [9] [10] [11] and belief in ritual abuse of women and children by Satanic cults. [12] Some moral panics can become embedded in standard political discourse, [2] which include concepts such as the Red Scare, [13] racism, [14] [page needed] and ...
Folk devils and moral panics. London: Mac Gibbon and Kee, 1972. ISBN 0-415-26712-9. Section 3.4 Interpreting the crime problem of Free OpenLearn LearningSpace Unit DD100_1 originally written for the Open University Course, DD100. Button, Mark and Tunley, Martin. (2015) Explaining Fraud Deviancy Attenuation in the United Kingdom.
The law granted Disney extraordinary powers of self-government, such as the ability to levy taxes and provide emergency services on land in central Florida that is home to the company’s ...
Lauren Eakin suffered “pure panic” when her Medicaid coverage lapsed in June. The 34-year-old Floridian is legally blind and confined to a wheelchair with cerebral palsy — but she’s ...
James Dennis Ford is set to be executed at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida, at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 13. What happened to Greg and Kimberly Malnory?
A social panic is a state where a social or community group reacts negatively and in an extreme or irrational manner to unexpected or unforeseen changes in their expected social status quo. According to Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen, the definition can be broken down to many
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 ...