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Moral panic: History & Measurement

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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Moral panic topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Moral panic.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
268
Extracted relationships
463
Concept neighborhoods
57
Bridge connections
268

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 165 topics
Topic clusters · 24 topics
History and development · 23 topics
Cohen's model of moral panic · 17 topics
Goode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model · 13 topics
Criticism of moral panic as an explanation · 11 topics
Mass media · 5 topics
General and cited references · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Author
Stanley Cohen
Published
1972 (1st ed., MacGibbon and Kee) · 1980 (2nd ed., Basil Blackwood) · 2002 (3rd ed., Routledge)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

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Overview

History and development

Cohen's model of moral panic

Mass media

Goode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model

Topic clusters

Criticism of moral panic as an explanation

General and cited references

  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)
  • Doi Doi (identifier)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Moral panic connects Entity context

The extracted context around Moral panic shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Moral panic → Academic Ethics, Adding, Agents, Aggression, Aisha, Ajzenstadt, AlterNet, America, American Journal, American Panic, American Sociological Review, Amoral Panics, Amsterdam, Antisocial Behaviour, Application, Archived, Are South Asian Men, Arford, Arnold, Arts Another extracted example is Moral panic → Action, Alarmism, Antisemitic, Attributing, Claim, Deliberate, Delusion, Discomfort, EuropeDeviancy, Excessive, False, Jews, JudaismBlood, LGBTQ, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Major Boobage, Media, Polish. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Moral panic

Top relations

related to Further reading · 302
Moral panic → Academic Ethics, Adding, Agents, Aggression, Aisha, Ajzenstadt, AlterNet, America, American Journal, American Panic, American Sociological Review, Amoral Panics, Amsterdam, Antisocial Behaviour, Application, Archived, Are South Asian Men, Arford, Arnold, Arts
see also · 37
Moral panic → Action, Alarmism, Antisemitic, Attributing, Claim, Deliberate, Delusion, Discomfort, EuropeDeviancy, Excessive, False, Jews, JudaismBlood, LGBTQ, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Major Boobage, Media, Polish
related to Differences in British and American definitions · 19
Moral panic → American, British, Crime, Crisis, Employing Cohen's, Hall, Hall's, In Policing, Jock Young, Kenneth Thompson, Law, Many, Marxist Stuart Hall, Mugging, Order, Porthmadog, State, UK, Wales
related to General and cited references · 18
Moral panic → Ben-Yehuda, Cohen, Deviance, Erich, Folk Devils, Goode, ISBN, London, Mods, Moral Panics, Nachman, New York, Rockers, Routledge, Stanley, The Creation, The Social Construction, Wiley
related to Criticism of moral panic as an explanation · 14
Moral panic → Another, Cohen's, Colin Hay, Donald Trump's, Durkheim's, Edna Phillips, In, James Bulger, Joosse, Paul Joosse, UK, United States, Weberian, Writing
related to Cohen's model of moral panic · 10
Moral panic → According, British, Cohen, Cohen's, First, Folk Devils, He, In, Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen
related to Goode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model · 10
Moral panic → Ben-Yehuda, Deviance, Erich Goode, Goode, In, Moral Panics, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Reviewing, The Social Construction, They
related to Agents of moral panic · 7
Moral panic → Characterizing, Cohen, Media, Moral, The, They, This
related to External links · 6
Moral panic → Media, Moral, Wikimedia Commons Quotations, Wikiquote The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Mass media · 5
Moral panic → Christian Joppke, Cohen, He, Simply, The

Important terminology

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Important terminology

moral panic media panics social doi 10 cohen british crime public folk journal concern isbn new threat devils sex sociology

Moral panic relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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.

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Moral panicAuthorStanley Cohen1.00infobox
Moral panicPublished1972 (1st ed., MacGibbon and Kee)1.00infobox
Moral panicPublished1980 (2nd ed., Basil Blackwood)1.00infobox
Moral panicPublished2002 (3rd ed., Routledge)1.00infobox
Moral panicis afundamental category error0.90text
the Red Scareinstance ofwhich include concepts0.80text
terrorism.It differs from mass hysteriainstance ofwhich include concepts0.80text
which is closer to a psychological illness rather than a sociological phenomenoninstance ofwhich include concepts0.80text
alcoholinstance oftheir presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure0.80text
other drugs are popularly subject to legal actioninstance oftheir presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure0.80text
criminalization due to their alleged harms to the health of those who partake in them or general order on the streetsinstance oftheir presence in and around the family is hardly acknowledged.Alcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure0.80text
alcoholinstance ofAlcohol and other drugsSubstances used for pleasure0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

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.

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  • moral entrepreneurs
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

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.

Min side: 3
Moral panicOverview · splits 103 ⟂ 166
Moral panicTopic clusters · splits 244 ⟂ 25
Moral panicHistory and development · splits 245 ⟂ 24
Moral panicCohen's model of moral panic · splits 251 ⟂ 18
Moral panicGoode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model · splits 255 ⟂ 14
Moral panicCriticism of moral panic as an explanation · splits 257 ⟂ 12
Moral panicMass media · splits 263 ⟂ 6
Moral panicGeneral and cited references · splits 266 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Moral panic

Nodes269
Edges268
Triples463
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007435
Components1

Source & methodology

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

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