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List of moral panics. This is a list of events that fit the sociological definition of a moral panic. 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 ...
Glass harmonica (1761-1820) Chinese sorcery scares, a series of similar events that took place in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1910. [14] Great Fear (1789) – a general panic that took place between 17 July and 3 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. [15]
prediction, the dire consequences of failure to act; symbolization, signifying a person, word, or thing as a threat. Moral entrepreneurs – individuals and groups who target deviant behavior. Societal control culture – comprises those with institutional power: the police, the courts, and local and national politicians.
But the boy’s death haunts him, mired in the swamp of moral confusion and contradiction so familiar to returning veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is what experts are coming to identify as a moral injury: the pain that results from damage to a person’s moral foundation. In contrast to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which ...
This is the world of the panics about the Western Canon and about speech codes in the 1980s, the anti-feminist panic about campus sex, and eventually about political correctness in the early 1990s.
The backlash has been described as a moral panic [4] [5] [6] and part of a larger culture war in the United States. [7] [8] [9] Scholars have cited rising anti-LGBTQ attitudes and policies as an example of democratic backsliding. [10] [11] The backlash has been connected to similar conservative backlashes in Hungary, Russia, Europe [12] [13 ...
The most commonly banned books in America include children’s books, te en books, and titles written for adults that address topics like race, mental health, LGBTQ issues, politics, and/or ...
The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.