YS: MEDIA

Question 1

What do interactionists argue about media and youth subcultures?

Answer 1

The media often exaggerate the extent of youth deviance, a form of labelling.

Question 2

What was the first incident of ‘moral panic’ relating to youth subcultures?

Answer 2

1960s: media coverage of fights between mods and rockers.

Question 3

What does Pearson’s research show show about ‘hooligans’?

Answer 3

Social concern about hooliganism led to sensationalist newspaper headlines and campaigns denouncing behaviour as ‘alien’ and ‘un-British’.

Question 4

What did Cohen argue about the moral panic surrounding mods and rockers?

Answer 4

The subsequent coverage was out of proportion to the incidents themselves.

Question 5

What does Cohen mean by ‘folk devils’?

Answer 5

Media over-exaggerating the conflicts between mods and rockers made them into ‘folk devils’.

Question 6

What does Young state about the police and hippies?

Answer 6

Looked at the meanings attached to interactions by police and hippies. The police tended to see the hippies as dirty, scruffy, ‘pot-heads’.

Question 7

What does Young argue actions from the police made the hippies do?

Answer 7

Form a more cohesive group and identity and exaggerate the original deviant traits perceived by the police.

Question 8

How does Lea and Young’s relative deprivation link to media?

Answer 8

The rise in media has led to an increase in feelings of deprivation.