COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Snapple, Criminology, Moral Realism
10 Mar 2016
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Arnold hunt, moral panic" and moral language in the media british journal of sociology 48. Intro this article traces the development of "moral panic" in the media, where it was first used to pejorative (express disapproval), then rejected for being pejorative, and finally rehabilitated as a term of approval. Moral panic", i suggest, is an unsatisfactory form of moral language which may adversely affect the media"s ability to handle moral issues seriously. most recent work on moral panic = erich goode and nachman ben-yehuda"s moralpanic: the. Social construction of deviance(1994),whose useful distinction between three different theories of moral panic ( interest-group"",elite-engineered" and" grassroots) 1980s,lists eleven uses of the term in 1989, twelve in 1990, eight in 1991 and seventeen in. Stanley cohen"s folk devils and moral panic(s1972),a classic sociological study of the mods and rockers phenomenon of the mid-1960s. cohen offered the following definition of the term: Societies appear to be subject,every now and then, to periods of moral panic.
