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Moral Panic's
Moral Panic - (Abstract concept used to make sense of 'Irrational Public Hysteria' - e.g. Paedophilia)
- Public and academic debate on moral panic works on the assumption that the media plays a significant role in determining the charactersistics of a moral panic.
-Signifies complex processes that shape public perceptions of a perceived threat to the moral case of society.
Processual Model:
A hends to process of moral panic, it has 7 defined stages...
-Emergence
-Media Inventry : Explanation of threat is manipulated by the media
-Media Entrepeneus: Groups of organisations speak out offering solutions
-Experts: Socially acredited experts who diagnose solutions
-Coping and resolution: retain to media and moral entrepeneus leads to legal reform.
-Fading away - Condition disappears, submerges, detiorates or becomes more visible
-Legacy - a moral panic have a long term effect and created big changes in social policy, the law, or society's views on it's self.
Attribution Model:
Claims those working in the media, politcal institutions of the legal system impact on the moral panics through 'claims making'
-5 Elements or Critera distinguish attributes of moral panics.
-Concern - a heightened level of convern, measurable through oponion polls etc ...
-Hostility - Increased hostility to a group or category - seen as 'enemy', to the rest of 'responsible' society.
-Consensus - a substantial segmant of society, agrees that the threat is real or caused by 'wrong dooers'.
-Disproportionality - The reaction by the public is out of proportion of the actual harm.
-Volatile - the idea that moral panics are volatile by nature, erupt quickly, but also often subside quickly. Each episode cannot be sustained for long.
- Public and academic debate on moral panic works on the assumption that the media plays a significant role in determining the charactersistics of a moral panic.
-Signifies complex processes that shape public perceptions of a perceived threat to the moral case of society.
Processual Model:
A hends to process of moral panic, it has 7 defined stages...
-Emergence
-Media Inventry : Explanation of threat is manipulated by the media
-Media Entrepeneus: Groups of organisations speak out offering solutions
-Experts: Socially acredited experts who diagnose solutions
-Coping and resolution: retain to media and moral entrepeneus leads to legal reform.
-Fading away - Condition disappears, submerges, detiorates or becomes more visible
-Legacy - a moral panic have a long term effect and created big changes in social policy, the law, or society's views on it's self.
Attribution Model:
Claims those working in the media, politcal institutions of the legal system impact on the moral panics through 'claims making'
-5 Elements or Critera distinguish attributes of moral panics.
-Concern - a heightened level of convern, measurable through oponion polls etc ...
-Hostility - Increased hostility to a group or category - seen as 'enemy', to the rest of 'responsible' society.
-Consensus - a substantial segmant of society, agrees that the threat is real or caused by 'wrong dooers'.
-Disproportionality - The reaction by the public is out of proportion of the actual harm.
-Volatile - the idea that moral panics are volatile by nature, erupt quickly, but also often subside quickly. Each episode cannot be sustained for long.
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