YS: MEDIA Flashcards
What do interactionists argue about media and youth subcultures?
The media often exaggerate the extent of youth deviance, a form of labelling.
What was the first incident of ‘moral panic’ relating to youth subcultures?
1960s: media coverage of fights between mods and rockers.
What does Pearson’s research show show about ‘hooligans’?
Social concern about hooliganism led to sensationalist newspaper headlines and campaigns denouncing behaviour as ‘alien’ and ‘un-British’.
What did Cohen argue about the moral panic surrounding mods and rockers?
The subsequent coverage was out of proportion to the incidents themselves.
What does Cohen mean by ‘folk devils’?
Media over-exaggerating the conflicts between mods and rockers made them into ‘folk devils’.
What does Young state about the police and hippies?
Looked at the meanings attached to interactions by police and hippies. The police tended to see the hippies as dirty, scruffy, ‘pot-heads’.
What does Young argue actions from the police made the hippies do?
Form a more cohesive group and identity and exaggerate the original deviant traits perceived by the police.
How does Lea and Young’s relative deprivation link to media?
The rise in media has led to an increase in feelings of deprivation.