Evaluate sociological explanations of media-generated moral panics - ESSAY PLAN
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- Evaluate sociological explanations of media-generated moral panics
- Introduction
- Moral Panic =exaggerated over-reaction by society to a perceived problem (driven by media)= enlarges problem out of all proportion to its real seriousness.
- 3 stages
- 1) Media identify group as a folk devil (threat to societal values
- 2) Media present group in negative way + exaggerate scale of problem
- 3) Moral entrepreneurs, politicians, police chiefs, bishops ect.... condemn group + behaviour
- 2) Media present group in negative way + exaggerate scale of problem
- 2) Media present group in negative way + exaggerate scale of problem
- 3) Moral entrepreneurs, politicians, police chiefs, bishops ect.... condemn group + behaviour
- 1) Media identify group as a folk devil (threat to societal values
- e.g. Mods and Rockers
- Exaggeration + distortion
- Prediction
- Symbolism
- COHEN
- => deviance amplification spiral
- Increased marginalisation + stigmatisation
- CRITICISM
- What turns deviance amplification on and off ?
- Why media amplify some problems + not others?
- Why do panics not carry on?
- Modern society relies on media = NO direct experience => mods+rockers portrayed as folk devils.
- CRITICISM
- Assumes reactions = disproportionate over-reaction BUT who decides what is a panicky one??
- LEFT REALISTS
- Fear of crime = rational
- LEFT REALISTS
- Assumes reactions = disproportionate over-reaction BUT who decides what is a panicky one??
- CRITICISM
- Occurs at times of scoial change = reflects anxieties if values threatened
- => 'BOUNDARY CRISIS'
- CRITICISM
- McROBBIE and THORNTON
- M.P's= less impact = little consensus of what is deviant e.g single motherhood NO longer regarded as deviant => harder to create panics about them.
- McROBBIE and THORNTON
- CRITICISM
- => 'BOUNDARY CRISIS'
- => deviance amplification spiral
- 3 stages
- Moral Panic =exaggerated over-reaction by society to a perceived problem (driven by media)= enlarges problem out of all proportion to its real seriousness.
- COHEN
- => deviance amplification spiral
- Increased marginalisation + stigmatisation
- CRITICISM
- What turns deviance amplification on and off ?
- Why media amplify some problems + not others?
- Why do panics not carry on?
- Modern society relies on media = NO direct experience => mods+rockers portrayed as folk devils.
- CRITICISM
- Assumes reactions = disproportionate over-reaction BUT who decides what is a panicky one??
- LEFT REALISTS
- Fear of crime = rational
- LEFT REALISTS
- Assumes reactions = disproportionate over-reaction BUT who decides what is a panicky one??
- CRITICISM
- Occurs at times of scoial change = reflects anxieties if values threatened
- => 'BOUNDARY CRISIS'
- CRITICISM
- McROBBIE and THORNTON
- M.P's= less impact = little consensus of what is deviant e.g single motherhood NO longer regarded as deviant => harder to create panics about them.
- McROBBIE and THORNTON
- CRITICISM
- => 'BOUNDARY CRISIS'
- => deviance amplification spiral
- NEO-MARXISTS -Hall et al (1979)
- M.P. over mugging- 1970's = distraction from crisis of capitalism => divided w/c on racial grounds + legitimate MORE authoritarian rule
- FUNCTIONALISTS
- = Response to anomie or normlessness
- Dramatise threat of folk devil = increase collective consciousness + maintains social controls
- = Response to anomie or normlessness
- Introduction
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