moral panic

English

Etymology

Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971[1] and Stanley Cohen in 1972.[2] Cohen states that "[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media".[2]

Noun

moral panic (plural moral panics)

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.

Translations

mass movement, public outcry

Chinese:
Mandarin: 道德恐慌 (dàodé kǒnghuāng)
Danish: moralpanik c
Dutch: morele paniek
Finnish: moraalipaniikki
French: panique morale (fr), tollé public
German: moralische Panik, allgemeiner Protest
Greek: ηθικός πανικός (ithikós panikós), δημόσια κατακραυγή (dimósia katakravgí)
Icelandic: siðfár n
Italian: panico morale
Japanese: 道徳的なパニック (dōtokuteki na panikku)
Korean: 도덕적인 공황 (dodeokjeogin gonghwang)
Latin: pavor moralis nom., pavoris moralis gen.
Portuguese: pânico moral
Russian: мора́льная па́ника (morálʹnaja pánika), ма́ссовая истери́я (mássovaja isteríja)
Spanish: pánico moral
Swedish: moralpanik c

References

Jock Young (1971) The Drugtakers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use, Paladin, →ISBN, pages 182, 197
Stanley Cohen (1972), “Introduction to the Third Edition”, in Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, 3rd edition, New York City: Routledge, published 2010, →ISBN, OCLC 802879559, page XXXV:
The term 'moral panic' was first used by Jock Young in 'The Role of the Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy, Negotiators of Reality and Translators of Fantasy', in S. Cohen (Ed.), Image of Deviance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 37. We both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, published in 1964.

[1] Jock Young (1971) The Drugtakers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use, Paladin, →ISBN, pages 182, 197

[Cohen-2] Stanley Cohen (1972), “Introduction to the Third Edition”, in Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, 3rd edition, New York City: Routledge, published 2010, →ISBN, OCLC 802879559, page XXXV:
The term 'moral panic' was first used by Jock Young in 'The Role of the Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy, Negotiators of Reality and Translators of Fantasy', in S. Cohen (Ed.), Image of Deviance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 37. We both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, published in 1964.