moral panic

短语

道德恐慌

词形变化

moral panics 复数 moral panics

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    道德恐慌

词源

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

来源：wiktionary