SOCPSY 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: List Of Newspapers In Pakistan
6 Mar 2015
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What are the key attributes of a moral panic: goode and ben yehuda"s key features of moral panic, concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality: threat throwing off balance in society. What did witches represent during this era: key characteristics, witches are working with or made a pact with the devil , good vs. evil or god vs. satan/the devil, hershey= crimes against god or participation in acts that were not in line with jesus/god, the media that existed in this day in age was primarily print based there was no media coverage like we see today. Moral panic: heroin users: a study by zajdow, main themes, content analysis of print media in terms of heroin deaths and heroin overdose deaths , folk devils were heroin (the actual drug) and deaths by overdose, moral entrepreneurs were church leaders, the social workers, the politicians, the medical practitioners and affected parents" groups , as well as drug users.
