Definitions for moral panic
moral pan·ic

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1. moral panicnoun

   A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. A public outcry.

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1. Moral panic

   A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear, often an irrational one, 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 perpetuated by moral entrepreneurs and the mass media, and exacerbated by politicians and lawmakers.Stanley Cohen, who developed the term, states that moral panic happens when "a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests". While the issues identified may be real, the claims "exaggerate the seriousness, extent, typicality and/or inevitability of harm". Moral panics are now studied in sociology and criminology, media studies, and cultural studies.Examples of moral panic include the belief in widespread abduction of children by predatory pedophiles; belief in ritual abuse of women and children by Satanic cults; and concerns over the effects of music lyrics. Some moral panics can become embedded in standard political discourse, which include concepts such as the "Red Scare" and terrorism.It differs from mass hysteria, which is closer to a psychological illness rather than a sociological phenomenon.

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1. Moral panic

   A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. The term first appears in the English language in The Quarterly Christian Spectator, a publication from 1830: ‘Do they not speak as men do on other subjects, when they express activity? And is it not the natural language of these expressions that the mind is as far as possible from stagnation, or torpor, or "moral panic?" ' It was used again in the following year, with the same meaning as the term used in modern social sciences: 'Megandie a French physician of note on his visit to Sunderland where the Cholera was by the last accounts still raging praises the English government for not surrounding the town with a cordon of troops which as "a physical preventive would have been ineffectual and would have produced a moral panic far more fatal than the disease now is" '. Marshall McLuhan gave the term academic treatment in his book Understanding Media written in 1964. According to Stanley Cohen, author of a sociological study about youth culture and media called Folk Devils and Moral Panics, a moral panic occurs when "[a] condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests". Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers as moral entrepreneurs, while people who supposedly threaten the social order have been described as "folk devils".

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of moral panic in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of moral panic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of moral panic in a Sentence

1. Andreas Harsono:

   It began with a moral panic : that homosexuality was contagious, that it might affect children, that it is more dangerous than nuclear war.

2. Alvaro Bedoya:

   There is evidence that some uses of social media do, in fact, hurt certain groups of teenagers and children, this is not some moral panic. There is a ‘there’ there.

3. Christopher Snowdon:

   The change to the guidelines will turn hundreds of thousands of people into 'hazardous drinkers' overnight thereby reviving the moral panic about drinking in Britain and opening the door to yet more nanny state interventions, people deserve to get honest and accurate health advice from the Chief Medical Officer, not scaremongering.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Moral_Panic
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Panic
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=moral panic