Media And Crime Flashcards
1
Q
Who’s idea was the moral panic
A
Stan Cohen
2
Q
See moral panic as ways of responding to the sense of anomie created by change. The media raise collective consciousness and reassert social controls
A
Functionalists
3
Q
See moral panic through hall et all’s argument that the panic over mugging distracted attention from the crisis of capitalism
A
Neo Marxism
4
Q
Who said news is not discovered but manufactured
A
Cohen and young
5
Q
What do left realists argue about mass media
A
Helps to increase the sense of relative deprivation as even the poor can now access it
6
Q
Who said pressure to conform to the norm can cause deviant behaviour
A
Merton
