MEDIA AND YOUTH SUBCULTURES

Question 1

Cohen

Answer 1

Studied the media coverage of the clashes between the mods and the rockers in the 1960s and found it was out of proportion in relation to the incident

Question 2

Deviancy amplification

Answer 2

Role of media in strengthening youth deviance in society- groups that go against the norms and values in society- leads to moral panic

Question 3

Cohen on moral panics

Answer 3

Issues such as the murder of Jamie Bulger, Stephen Lawrence etc- found that the media sensationalises the story which leads to public anxiety

Question 4

Furedi

Answer 4

Moral panics arise when society fails to adapt to social change
They reflect wider concerns that the older generations have about the nature of society

Question 5

Goode and Ben-Yehuda

Answer 5

Criticise Cohen- there is no beginning or end to moral panics
1, Concern
2. Hostility 
3. Consensus
4. Disproportionality 
5. Volatility

Question 6

Marxist beliefs on media and youth deviance

Answer 6

Moral panics are used as a form of social control to support capitalism
Distracts people from the real issues

Question 7

Neo-Marxist

Answer 7

Considers who has the power to label what is deviant and what isn’t
Hall ‘policing the crisis’

Question 8

Interactionist

Answer 8

Process of labelling deviance - can lead to self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 9

Moral panics reflect the concerns of the olde generation about society

Answer 9

Furedi

Question 10

Examples of moral panics (2)

Answer 10

The clashes between the mods and the rockers

The hoodies

Question 11

Who studied the hoodie moral panic?

Answer 11

Fawbert

Question 12

Fawbert

Answer 12

Hoodie moral panic- longer sentences for ‘thugs wearing hoods’