SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, Squeegee, Differential Association
17 Nov 2016
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That violates social norms in the society in which it occurs. Integrated typology of deviance *see the slides for demo* Definitions of deviance change over social space. Remove focus from youth homelessness, and create it as a threat to urban habitability. Moral panic about girl violence reflects ideas about gender and violence. Statistics give a sense of truth to a problem, because they are understood as neutral. Object of panic is not the source of anxiety. Reading: emotions contests and flexibility in the news. Media reconstructs emotional responses as legitimate and rational. How the news media adapts to the rhetoric of moral panic. Categories of social identity are constructed around norms of acceptable behaviour, appearance, and beliefs. Crimes are behaviours that violate criminal law and are punished. Not all deviant behaviours are criminal; not all things criminal are deviant. Behaviours defined as criminal vary over time and space.
