SOCI 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Typification, Moral Panic, The Pall Mall Gazette
24 Oct 2016
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Moral crusades: in certain moments in time, certain groups engage in organized efforts that focus on specific problems in time. Our claims making activities reflect and overlap our morals and vice versa. Another topic at hand here is moral panic which relates to and acts off of these activities and morals. All of these are a formula that tells us what is and what is not acceptable. Moral crusades do not have to be a negative thing: example: moral panic around personal hygiene and having the need to feel like we must participate. We say where it should happen, when it should happen, if it should happen at all: always in the context of male masturbation, some considered it self-harming back in the day. Targeted what was understood as immoral sexual activity (1860-1910: historical context of masturbation. Contagious disease act of 1864, 1866, and 1869: against abortion and contraception, concerned with prostitution and age of consent.
