YS: MEDIA Flashcards

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What do interactionists argue about media and youth subcultures?

A

The media often exaggerate the extent of youth deviance, a form of labelling.

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What was the first incident of ‘moral panic’ relating to youth subcultures?

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1960s: media coverage of fights between mods and rockers.

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What does Pearson’s research show show about ‘hooligans’?

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Social concern about hooliganism led to sensationalist newspaper headlines and campaigns denouncing behaviour as ‘alien’ and ‘un-British’.

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What did Cohen argue about the moral panic surrounding mods and rockers?

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The subsequent coverage was out of proportion to the incidents themselves.

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What does Cohen mean by ‘folk devils’?

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Media over-exaggerating the conflicts between mods and rockers made them into ‘folk devils’.

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What does Young state about the police and hippies?

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Looked at the meanings attached to interactions by police and hippies. The police tended to see the hippies as dirty, scruffy, ‘pot-heads’.

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What does Young argue actions from the police made the hippies do?

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Form a more cohesive group and identity and exaggerate the original deviant traits perceived by the police.

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How does Lea and Young’s relative deprivation link to media?

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The rise in media has led to an increase in feelings of deprivation.

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