SOC224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satanic Ritual Abuse, Salem Witch Trials, Michelle Smith
27 Sep 2017
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Moral panic: moral panic: a society"s misperception and overreaction to the actual seriousness of an event or events, widespread feeling of the public that something is failing, reaction to harm can be exaggerated and destructive. Ie: salem witch trials: at the core of the witch craze was the idea that the general public had a conspiracy against the king. There was a claim to have supernaturalistic abilities and connections to the devil. Ie: pedophiles: research seems to show that forms of child abuse is not actually by pedophiles; more than often it is someone the child know. It is the belief that primarily children, and sometimes adults, experience sexual abuse at severe networks of satanists: hard to figure out the origin story (common with moral. Panic: book, titles michelle remembers - michelle smith and. In this book, she describes forgotten memories, revealed through hypnosis, and laurence was her therapist.
