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A moral panic, also called a social panic, is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. It is "the process of arousing social concern over an issue", usually elicited by moral entrepreneurs and sensational mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and…
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TTTA extracted 463 structured relationships around Moral panic. Examples in this analysis include Moral panic → Author → Stanley Cohen and Moral panic → Published → 1972 (1st ed., MacGibbon and Kee). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moral panic | Author | Stanley Cohen | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moral panic | Published | 1972 (1st ed., MacGibbon and Kee) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moral panic | Published | 1980 (2nd ed., Basil Blackwood) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moral panic | Published | 2002 (3rd ed., Routledge) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moral panic | is a | fundamental category error | 0.90 | text |
| the Red Scare | instance of | which include concepts | 0.80 | text |
| terrorism.It differs from mass hysteria | instance of | which include concepts | 0.80 | text |
| which is closer to a psychological illness rather than a sociological phenomenon | instance of | which include concepts | 0.80 | text |
| alcohol | instance of | their presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure | 0.80 | text |
| other drugs are popularly subject to legal action | instance of | their presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure | 0.80 | text |
| criminalization due to their alleged harms to the health of those who partake in them or general order on the streets | instance of | their presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure | 0.80 | text |
| alcohol | instance of | Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Moral panic bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Panic, Panics and Social. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Moral panic, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Moral panic with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Moral panic to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Moral panic · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout