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prediction, the dire consequences of failure to act; symbolization, signifying a person, word, or thing as a threat. Moral entrepreneurs – individuals and groups who target deviant behavior. Societal control culture – comprises those with institutional power: the police, the courts, and local and national politicians.
Stanley Cohen (sociologist) Stanley Cohen FBA (23 February 1942 – 7 January 2013) was a sociologist and criminologist, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, known for breaking academic ground on "emotional management", including the mismanagement of emotions in the form of sentimentality, overreaction, and emotional denial.
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
978-0415610162. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers is a 1972 sociology book by Stanley Cohen. [1][2][3] It was the first book to define the social theory of moral panic. [4][5][6]
The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It also examines the concepts and presuppositions of education theories. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws inspiration from various disciplines both within and outside philosophy, like ethics ...
Jock Young was educated at the London School of Economics. His PhD was an ethnography of drug use in Notting Hill, West London, out of which he developed the concept of moral panic. The research was published as The Drugtakers. He was a founding member of the National Deviancy Conferences and a group of critical criminologists in which milieu ...
Social panic. A social panic is a state where a social or community group reacts negatively and in an extreme or irrational manner to unexpected or unforeseen changes in their expected social status quo. According to Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen, the definition can be broken down to many different sections.
List of moral panics. This is a list of events that fit the sociological definition of a moral panic. In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern over some group or issue, in which the public reaction to such group or issue is disproportional to its actual threat. The concern is further fueled by mass ...