Moral Panic
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- Created on: 16-05-17 21:13
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- Moral Panics (Cultural Revolution)
- S. Cohen, 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics'
- Three roles in moral panic:
- Setting the agenda
- Making the claim
- Transmitting the images
- 1960s- labelling theory, cultural politics, and critical sociology
- Moral panics often objective towards:
- Sex, violence, and blaming the media
- Young, w/c violent males
- Opinions and attitudes
- 1. Evaluative orientation
- Disaster- in terms of psychological impact
- 'Prophecy of doom'- deviance magnified/ predicted to recur
- 'What could have happened'- what the behaviour might lead to
- 'Not only this'- also teenage pregnancy, vandalism, CND marches
- 2. Images
- Spurious attribution
- Affluent youth
- 'Divide and rule'- gang rivalry
- Lunatic fringe or hot-blooded youth?
- 3. Causation
- 'Sign of the times' - social, rather than psychological
- Like a disease- misconception that deviance can 'spread'
- Cabalism- occult doctrine
- Boredom
- 1. Evaluative orientation
- Differential reaction
- Mass media and public
- Media response = extreme and more stereotypical than public concern
- Young and old
- Findings suggest that older people were more punitive than younger generations
- Locals and outsiders
- Locals perhaps more resistant to media distortions
- Male and female
- Various sources imply that females were more intolerant than males
- Social class
- Differences in explanations of causation
- Political affilitation
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- Mass media and public
- Three roles in moral panic:
- Youth consumption fueled social anxiety/panic
- Media portrayed teens as a 'threat' to society- deviance, violence, and sexual promiscuity
- Study of moral panics
- Most claims depend on public morality
- Reaction always more severe than the condition warrants
- Cultural revolution and the panic
- One of the most recurrent types of moral panic post-WW2= emergence of w/c youth cultures
- 'Kulturgeist' (certain spirit)
- Structural conductive-ness of mods and rockers
- Esoteric collective behaviour
- Few studies made as to why mods and rockers emerged- societal reaction is the main focus
- S. Cohen, 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics'
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