Moral Panic

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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
      • 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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    • 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

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