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A) MAKE SOME BRIEF NOTES ON WHAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS MEAN BY THE TERM ‘MORAL PANIC. ...
Moral panics appear to centre around young behaviour/adolecents
Media coverage can often start a trend, fashion, cult following - youth culture
Media focus often results in bringing notoriety to the deviant/s, this in turn can promote further deviant acts.
Society fearful and fascinated by moral panics.
Stanley Cohen (1973,p9) gives an explanation of moral panic.
Where does the fault lie for the outbreak of a moral panic? ...
B) DESCRIBE IN YOUR OWN WORDS HOW THE DEVIANCY AMPLIFICATION SPIRAL OPERATES TO PRODUCE A ‘MORAL PANIC. ... Witness to this was Stanley Cohen a social scientist present to study the events. ... (Taylor et al, 1995, p478)
It shows how the cycle of events of a moral panic comes to pass, beginning with a deviant act; a crime, an act which may be percieved to be a threat to coviety and its values. ... The media acheivment was to create moral panic amongst the public. ...
What the media in fact acheived in the long run was to both create a youth culture and define a famous point in social science history.
Approximate Word count = 884
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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