Moral Panic and Social Theory : Beyond the Heuristic by Amanda Rohloff and Sarah Wright
This article coves the basis that the term moral panic is overused and
that the idea of moral panic has been lost overtime because of different
aspects of life. The issues that the term is facing are normativity,
temporality and unintentionally vs. intentionality. These problems are cause
moral panics to be accepted into everyday life and often overlooked or misused.
The term is now more often than not used as a term of social critiques more
that outright panic. The other issues cover the problem of the time and the how
of the panic that is happening. Weather a long or short panic time all panics
can be seen as timeless because a logical transition can be seen between each
new panic. The last point is who is fuelling the panic and this seem sot come
down to a political statement where a
small or large group of people who see a problem and want something done about
it and are only satisfied when a law or something of the like is passed.
Finally the debate on whether the things people are classing as moral panics is
simply society coming to terms with the new developments in life also known as
moral regulations. This final statement is that there is a difference in the
theory of moral panics and the reality of the way the world sees its self. The
media only acts as a catalyst in the process and not in the production of the
panic its self
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