SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individualism, Moral Panic
8 Apr 2016
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Chapter 17 moral panic and the nasty girl (barron and lacombe) Learning intentions: to examine how anxieties related to societal changes can be misplaced in a moral panic. The belief that girl violence is rampant is a social construction. Several researchers indicate that an increase in the number of young women charged with minor or moderate assault (including pushing or slapping) reflects a change in policy and charging practices rather than a real" change in behaviour. The moral panic literature emphasizes that during a panic, the anxieties the public experiences are real, but their reaction is often misplaced. The object of the panic the violent girl is not always the source of people"s anxiety. Societal transitions may generate underlying anxiety, which is misplaced. A shift to a late-modern society involved: individualism stemming from a knowledge based technological society, plurality of values, self-reflexivity, multiculturalism, scientific and political relativism. These changes melt the solid foundation of modernity.
