- Social panic
A social panic is a state where a social or community group reacts negatively and in extreme or irrational manners to unexpected or unforeseen changes in their expected social
status quo .cite book | last = Rowbotham | first = Judith | authorlink = | coauthors = Kim Stevenson | title = Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage--Victorian and Modern Parallels | publisher = Ashgate Publishing | date = April 2003 | location = London | pages = | url = http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=DvL56GNGZuEC&dq=%22social+panic%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=aKt8l6YVpF&sig=R3fI_Sh0GLpinnEAAe-kkiSyCAA | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0754609650 ]References
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DE3D61530E633A25753C3A9669D94669FD7CF SOME ASPECTS OF LONDON LABOR.] , NY Times, 1887
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04E4D71531E033A25752C2A9669D94659ED7CF FINANCES OF AUSTRALASIA; CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE GREAT UPHEAVAL IN BUSINESS] , NY Times, 1894
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CEEDD153AEF33A25752C3A96E9C946896D6CF A WORLD OF MACHINERY THAT WASTES HUMAN ENERGY; I. The Troubled Outlook for the Present Hour] , NY Times, 1919
* [http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ473807&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ473807 History, Crisis, and Social Panic: Minority Resistance to Privatization of an Urban School System] , US Department of Education
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