Des paniques morales spontanées ? Le cas de la “rumeur d’Orléans”

Analysed by Edgar Morin and his team in the work of the same name, the celebrated rumour of Orleans (1969) is cited by Goode and Ben-Yehuda (2009) as the example par excellence of a spontaneous moral panic. Using sources neglected by Morin, we show that he failed to take into account the probable po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-Michel Chaumont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2012-06-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/847