CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Moral Panic, Late Modernity, Sexting
16 Jul 2014
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June 3, 2014 use precise words & conceptually accurate terms )economic forces vs. society) Create powerful sentences- use the active voice (present), not past. Mps result in fear, sense of threat, often strong (negative/hyperbolic) reactions to events: when an event seems outside the range of normal". Youth have often been targets of moral panics: what has changed is our access to moral panics" due to technological changes, access, be wary of moral panics, often media created threats. 2: sociological term coined in 1972 by stanley cohen. Moral panics are created; response to an event(s)/behaviours by particular groups of people. Creating moral panics are: media, police, politicians, policy makers, and even action groups: focus of blame in a moral panic is known as a folk devil" (cohen, 1980; goode & ben-yehuda, 1994): folk devil becomes the focus of blame & personification of blame.
