SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Menopause, List Of Bubblegum Crisis Characters, Homicide
Document Summary
Exaggerated threat to societal values, by folk devils. Parents are in fact the most significant group of child killers. Other moral panics include: anthrax, lysteria, and second hand smoke. Examples to fill it in: images and stories. Intersection of three variables: history (e. g. the depression, plagues, social structure (where you are born in hierarchy or society) most of history, you were better off born male, biography (of individual) E. g. winston churchill prime minister of england, slept 3 hours a day, but he was able to write many books and also won nobel prizes. Set of people born at the same time. Experience similar things at the same age (especially teen years) Followed by: baby bust, mtv generation, generation x, know nothings, generation with a pr problem, examples are antagonistic terms. 2 major differences between 2 cohorts: time born (history) Man women began to enter the work force beginning the 1970"s. There are more divorces among the generation x population.
