HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Maastricht Treaty, Moral Panic
23 Feb 2017
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March 26, 2008 see the arrival of aids which replaced all other sexual scares, created a moral panic which is a term coined by an english sociologist. What we mean by this it is a panic about some aspect that is defined in moral terms , when we say a moral panic we mean some kind of issue has been blown out of proportion. But the way that aids was approached from the 1990s has all the whole marks of a moral panic. Belief that it was more widespread then it was, beliefs that were pointed to certain kind of population and behaviour as responsible for it. Real sense that the aids epidemic was regarded as some kind of gods retribution on western population for the simple ness. Aids was initially concentrated in the gay and intravenous drug using populations and has not spread to straight population.
