SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Panic, Sexting, Egotism
3 Dec 2016
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September 22, 2016: thesis information sheet on courselink, thesis is a central idea to which all essay"s paragraphs, statements, and information relate, a thesis sentence: Concise overview of how ideas will be arranged: usually in first paragraph, when writing and revising thesis: Canadian news-stream database: link to access available on courselink, search cases and course guides, limit to: full text , limit date to: last 5 years (january 1, 2011) Moral panics: group labelled as folk devils (clear distinction between us" and them") describes hostility as a characteristic of moral panic, examples: school shootings, swine flu, teen sexting, limitations of the moral panic perspective. Audiences are comprised of individuals (react differently) Media depictions are not homogenous (different media show different things) Too little attention is given to the medium (often overlook how messages are transmitted) Pointing out that something is a moral panic often has limited effect (telling someone their fear isn"t justified doesn"t change fear)
