MORAL PANIC INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE

MORAL PANIC INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE

Introduction

Cohen (1980 ) defines moral panic as the emergence of a particular condition , episode , individual or group of people that threatens the societal values and interests (Cohen , 1980 ,

. 9 . The society often has socially shared values and moral panic . This happens when there is something that comes to the surface and threatens this set of values when that thing that surface goes against these values , potentially changes , challenges and damages this set of values . Thus , it becomes a cause of concern for the society as

a whole . Often , these values involve , among other things , morals about certain aspects of life . The rise of the threat and cause of moral panic presents the challenge to morals and even deviation from , morals and the accepted morality . There have been many causes of moral panic . There are those which appeared just once , while there are those which are consistently banging at the door of morality and is developing , changing evolving as time passes by It does not disappear , but it does not grow worse either . It simply changes and remains constant in the lives of people for a long period of time . One of these types of things is pornography among young adults , an important issue in sexuality starting from the time there were commercial and mass media capabilities that allow for pornography to be distributed and circulated among many different readers . From magazines to betamax and VCDs and CD copies of pornographic material , the moral panic...