Moral panic, phrase used in sociology to describe an artificially created panic or scare. Researchers, often influenced by critical conflict-oriented Marxist themes, have demonstrated that moral entrepreneurs have demonized “dangerous groups” to serve
Firstly, Cohen’s oft-cited definition of a moral panic describes how an episode or group of persons can come to be seen as a threat to societal values and portrayed as such in stereotypical fashion by the media, resulting in turn in moral outrage from editorial writers, prominent interest ...
The issue of medicine's control over death has been a public concern for many decades and has occasionally risen to the level of a moral panic (Hillyard & Dombrink, 2002). The EOLOA, however, became law at a pivotal moment: attitudes about aid in dying (AID) had been growing more ...
Then as now, transit workers faced the pent-up tensions of the city head on. Routine delays and accidents in the system meant that the anger was deflected back onto those on the frontlines. For her doctoral research in sociology at Columbia in the mid-1980s, Marian Swerdlow worked as an...