Marxist View on Moral Panic

• Marxist Sociologists argue that Deviancy Amplification & Moral Panics are used as a form of social control to support Capitalism
• Marxist Sociologists argue that Moral Panics have an effect on media to distract people from the real issues that create inequality in society
• Marxist Sociologists argue that Deviancy Amplification highlight issues that have been exaggerated and have the effect of masking the real problems that affect people on a daily basis
• Marxist Thinker Cohen (2002) argues that studying Deviancy Amplification & Moral Panics helps people to "identify and conceptualised the lines of power in any society, the ways we are manipulated into taking some things seriously and other things not seriously enough" (use Moral Panics as the serious issues, rather than the principal issue of Capitalism)
• Cohen (2002) was a Marxist and explains how Deviancy Amplification & Moral Panics distract us from the serious issue of Capitalism
• Cohen was a Marxist and explains how Deviancy Amplification & Moral Panics distract us from the serious issue of Capitalism in 2002
• Stanley Cohen's (2002) idea that moral panics distract from underlying issues can be applied to MP Nigel Farage's focus on Immigration - Farage's political rhetoric emphasizes immigration as a serious problem, which can divert public attention from deeper systemic issues like economic inequality and capitalism - By framing immigration as the primary threat, the real economic and capitalist problems that contribute to social issues are overshadowed and not adequately addressed