Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Boogie 2Nite, Town Square, Fieldnotes
14 Jul 2016
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Setting the stage: growing concern about youth, especially young men, and how they spend their leisure time i. e. , drinking, smoking, doing drugs, hanging out, nuisance. Spent a lot of time doing leisure activities on the streets o. New legislation on alcohol that created by-laws on it and advertising campaigns associated with it. Culture shared stocks of knowledge, values, ideas, and systems of meaning that are held collectively and manipulated by social actors in the daily construction of reality. The media attention and piecemeal policy responses reflect the moral panic that surrounds these young people and their behavior. Moral panic blowing a situation out of proportion creating more anxieties out of it than there should be. Creating an idea of danger and risk rather than it is in actual fact o. Health-relevant lifestyle formed during the teenage years when drinking, smoking, and experimentation with illicit drugs can come together.
