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Making Sense of Moral PanicsCritiquing Moral Panic

Making Sense of Moral Panics: Critiquing Moral Panic [Examines and evaluates the nature of the critiques directed at moral panic since its inception and the responses to these by Cohen (Folk devils and moral panics, London, Routledge, 2002) and other panic scholars. It explores, for example, the view of panic as a normative assessment made by left-leaning academics; the claim that folk devils can fight back; and the charge that the model of panic is too blunt to capture the complexities of risk-focused anxieties. This chapter also considers, in brief, the impact of new media ecosystem on panic development, whether the public should be a variable in research and why context matters. This chapter concludes with a discussion of some implications of the critiques for panic research.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Making Sense of Moral PanicsCritiquing Moral Panic

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-61820-3
Pages
29 –57
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-61821-0_3
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Abstract

[Examines and evaluates the nature of the critiques directed at moral panic since its inception and the responses to these by Cohen (Folk devils and moral panics, London, Routledge, 2002) and other panic scholars. It explores, for example, the view of panic as a normative assessment made by left-leaning academics; the claim that folk devils can fight back; and the charge that the model of panic is too blunt to capture the complexities of risk-focused anxieties. This chapter also considers, in brief, the impact of new media ecosystem on panic development, whether the public should be a variable in research and why context matters. This chapter concludes with a discussion of some implications of the critiques for panic research.]

Published: Oct 7, 2017

Keywords: Folk Devils; Panic Scholars; Media Ecosystem; Pan Development; Fight Back

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