SOC 4030 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 2 Article: Class Discrimination, Girl Power, Toronto Star
25 Dec 2017
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News and the social construction of risky girls by alison fyfe:u. In british columbia, on november 14th 1997, seven girls and one boy, aged between 14 and 16, beat 14 year-old reena virk to near death. Virk attemted to escape her assailants, but two of them warren. Glowatski and kelly ellard followed her, administrered a second beating, dragged her unconscious body under the bridge where she was first beaten, and drowned her. Journalists use the notion of risk to support the bad girl hypothesis, arguing that the social changes incurred through modernity, such as women"s liberation, civic rights, and the development of the. Internet, have put girls in social situations they are unequipped to manage. The nasty girl is one of many labels attached to the new folk devil from the 1990s, along with the. Methods: this article investigates coverage of youth aggression at the time of the virk murder by the toronto.
