Weekly Wikipedia Find: Moral panic

What are moral panics? According to Jones and Jones, it can be defined as "the intensity of feeling expressed by a large number of people about a specific group of people who appear to threaten the social order at a given time." An intensity of feeling. I think I might suffer from that. But a dearth of emotion. It be complicated. But that's neither here nor there.

But if there is to be moral panics, there are certain roles needed to be cast. There is the moral entrepreneur, hocking his wares from here to Delaware. This value salesman feels the encroachment upon his entreprises from an increase in consumer demand brought upon the availability and quality of supplies. This results in the introduction of folk devils, who sneak into the gap left by the inadequacies of the moral marketplace. These folks devils offer new, often foreign-made, values at cheaper prices (The irony is this is purely capitalistic in its promotion of competition).

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