Moral-religious reformers can gain popular support by predicting calamities that then appear fulfilled
Evidence
Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. … Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way society conceives itself. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 55 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Moral panics can produce long-lasting changes in society. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 55
Related
- Moral panics can produce long-lasting changes in society. (similarity 0.85)
- Even if a specific moral panic does not seem to leave immediate traces of routinization, its very happening may leave memories and cognitive deposits. (similarity 0.83)
- Moral panics arise from cultural strains caused by social change and serve as mechanisms of social control reinforcing existing power dynamics. (similarity 0.82)
- Even without immediate traces of routinization, moral panics create cognitive deposits and memories that may make the next panic have longer-lasting effects; thus no moral panic should be… (similarity 0.80)
- Even without immediate traces of routinization, moral panics create cognitive deposits and memories that may make the next panic have longer-lasting effects; thus no moral panic should be considered trivial. (similarity 0.80)
- Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Moral panics can produce long-lasting changes in society.
#expands(0.85) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 55