Interactionist Approaches

Question 1

Wilkins

Answer 1

• There are members of society who engage in behaviours that go against accepted norms and values and that an effect of the medias reporting and representations of this deviance is that such behaviour is strengthened and magnified.
• The medias response then heightens public awareness and as a result more people actually engage in the deviant behaviour

Question 2

Cohen

Answer 2

• Argued that the media labelled the mods and rockers and examined the medias response to the event.
• the media labelled the mods and rockers in a negative and stereotyped way and as a result they came to be seen as ‘folk devils’.
• Highlighted the role of the media in defining the situation and argued that they had created a greatly exaggerated picture of the conflict between the mods and rockers.
• As a result of the panic over the mods and rockers, was the reinforcement of regular police forces with soldiers.

Question 3

Fawbert

Answer 3

• examined newspaper reports about hoodies between 2004-2008
• noted that there was only one article in the national paper that used the word hoodie to describe a young thug.
• Later in the year there was a banning outrage to shoppers who were hoodies and baseball caps.
• Hoodies suddenly became a symbol of mischief

Question 4

Goode and Ben Yehuda

Answer 4

• argue that there are 5 elements present in a moral panic:
  Concern
  Hostility
  Consensus
  Disproportionality
  Volatility