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Moral panic

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

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related to Further reading · 302
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related to Differences in British and American definitions · 19
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related to General and cited references · 18
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related to Criticism of moral panic as an explanation · 14
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related to Cohen's model of moral panic · 10
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related to Goode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model · 10
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related to Agents of moral panic · 7
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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

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