Sociology / Unit 5 Soc 0693 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Moral Panic
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The idea
A moral panic is an episode in which public concern about a threat rises far above the evidence for it, producing rules that outlast the panic.
In practice
A wave of alarm about a youth activity yields lasting restrictions after the alarm subsides.
Where people slip
A panic can attach to a real problem; the disproportion, not the falsity, defines it.
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