Deviancy Amplification and Moral Panics All Studies

Question 1

What concept did Wilkins create?

Answer 1

Deviancy Amplification

Question 2

What is Deviancy Amplification?

Answer 2

When reactions from the media leads to an increase of deviant behaviour

Question 3

Why does the media’s reaction to something sometimes lead to deviancy amplification?

Answer 3

They glamourise the deviance

Question 4

Give 2 examples of moral panic studies

Answer 4

Cohen, Fawbert

Question 4

Which 2 youth cultures did Cohen research?

Answer 4

Mods and Rockers

Question 5

What did the mods and rockers do?

Answer 5

They fought each other on beaches

Question 5

What is it called if a group is stagmatised by the media?

Answer 5

Folk Devils

Question 6

What did Cohen find about the fights?

Answer 6

They were not actually very violent

Question 7

Who were the Folk Devils in Cohen’s Study?

Answer 7

Mods and Rockers

Question 8

What did the media do with their reports of the mods and rockers fights?

Answer 8

They made it seem like they were very violent

Question 9

What was the result of the moral panic over mods and rockers?

Answer 9

Young people wanted to get involved in the fights

Question 10

What was created due to the media reports on mods and rockers?

Answer 10

A Moral Panic

Question 11

What was the impact of more people getting involved in the fights because of the moral panic in relation to the police?

Answer 11

The police dealt with these fights more frequently

Question 12

Is Fawbert an other sociologist or Interactionist?

Answer 12

Other sociologist

Question 13

How did a shopping centre in Kent respond to the moral panic?

Answer 13

They banned people from wearing hoodies in the shopping centre

Question 14

How was the term ‘hoodies’ used?

Answer 14

It was used to describe young people involved in crime

Question 15

What does Young argue drugs used at the start of the hippy movement?

Answer 15

They only used marijuana

Question 15

What happened with the police labelling impacting hippies opinion on themselves?

Answer 15

They became a self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 16

What was an impact on the sales of hoodies from this moral panic?

Answer 16

They increased

Question 17

What did Young argue about the use of marijuana among hippies?

Answer 17

It did not define their identity

Question 18

Name 2 drugs the hippies were more likely to use after being labelled as outsiders

Answer 18

Heroin, Cocaine

Question 18

What happened to hippies as the police labelled hippies as drug users?

Answer 18

Hippies started to see themselves as outsiders

Question 19

What was the result of hippies being labelled as outsiders?

Answer 19

They started to be more likely to use harder drugs

Question 20

What does it mean if the hippies started to see themselves as outsiders?

Answer 20

They were seen as being opposed in society

Question 21

What did Biggs research?

Answer 21

The impact of the media reports on the 2011 London Riots causing other people to riot

Question 22

What started the peaceful protests?

Answer 22

A 29 year old black man was killed by the police

Question 23

Where did the riots start?

Answer 23

Tottenham

Question 24

Name a deviant act presented in the riots by the media

Answer 24

Arson

Question 25

Name 2 areas the riots spread to after the media reports?

Answer 25

Bristol, Liverpool

Question 26

Was the behaviour in Hall’s study on a large scale at first?

Answer 26

No

Question 26

Name a deviant act done in riots after the media reports

Answer 26

Looting

Question 27

Which Neo-Marxist studied a group of black muggers?

Answer 27

Hall

Question 27

What was the economic situation at the time of Hall’s study?

Answer 27

There was a recession

Question 28

Why did the original black muggers in Hall’s study mug people?

Answer 28

To survive

Question 29

In Hall’s study, what did the media create around the behaviour of black muggers?

Answer 29

A moral panic

Question 30

What happened after the media moral panic in Hall’s study?

Answer 30

It caused deviancy amplification

Question 31

What did Hall argue was the reason for the creation of the moral panic?

Answer 31

It was to divert attention from the failure of capitalism at the time

Question 32

Which class of people in society own media companies?

Answer 32

The ruling class

Question 33

What did Jackson and Tinkler study?

Answer 33

The moral panic created around ladette culture

Question 34

What gender traits were ladettes supposedly gaining?

Answer 34

Masculine traits

Question 35

Name one deviant behaviour the media in Jackson and Tinkler’s study said girls were adopting

Answer 35

Heavy drinking

Question 36

According to Jackson and Tinkler, why did the media create this moral panic?

Answer 36

To try and get girls to go back to their traditional gender roles

Question 37

Name 2 traditional female gender roles

Answer 37

Being caring. Being nurturing

Question 38

Which culture did Thornton study?

Answer 38

Rave culture

Question 39

What was the popularity of rage culture at the start?

Answer 39

It was underground

Question 40

What caused rave culture to go mainstream?

Answer 40

The media reported on a girl dying from overdosing on ecstasy

Question 41

What was the impact of the moral panic in Thornton’s study in terms of deviancy?

Answer 41

Deviancy amplification occurred