chapter 3
subculture (5 types of people who may be targets of moral outrage)
1. those who commit criminal and antisocial acts ( young working class men) 2. individuals who commit very serious offenses 3. those whose behaviors strays from organizational procedures or who break conventional codes of conduct in the work place 4. those who simply adopt patterns of behavior, styles of dress, or ways of presenting themselves from the "norm"
The deviancy amplification spiral sets into motion a series of interrelated responses.
true
The spiral of deviancy never spirals out of control for a number of reasons.
true
America was experiencing such a maelstrom of disintegration and renewal at the time of the ______ War of the Worlds broadcast.
1938
the panic over the teddy boys took place in the
1950s
the social construction of youth as exploded into the public consciousness in the late
1950s
The panics over mods and rockers took place in the
1960s
research has found that fewer than __% of people frequently experience high levels of fear
8
______, who was Arkansas Governor at the time, refused Rector's final appeals for clemency and suspended his presidential campaign in order to return to Arkansas and personally preside over the execution
Bill Clinton
risk
a concept that emerged to dominate discussion of late modernity in the 90s, "risk society" coined by Beck to denote the social shift from the preindustrial tendency to view negative evens as random act of God
labeling
a sociological approach for crime and deviancy made famous by Becker that refers to the social processes by which certain groups (politicians, police, and the media) classify and categorize others
mega-cases
are those that take on a significant far greater than might be the case for other criminal events
According to the authors, commitment to the punk movement was based on all of the following except?
dislike of music
moral majority
encapsulates the imagined community to which the popular press address themselves
Bill Clinton is considered to be a conservative politician.
false
Internet sites will frequently appeal to a nostalgic conservative ideology.
false
Some critics hang on to the belief that moral panics originate at a microlevel.
false
The field of sociology abandoned the moral panic thesis within 2 years of its inception.
false
All youth cultures require a relatively high level of ______ input.
financial
moral panic
hostile and disproportional social reaction to a condition, episode, person, or group defined as a threat
signal crime
incidents or offenses that when seen or experienced may trigger change in public beliefs or behavior
deviance is used as a byword for which of the following terms
irrationality, manipulability, and unconventionality
the punk movement was orchestrated by which of the following duos
music producers & fashion designers
which of the following is not part of the deviancy amplification spiral?
public acceptance
the moral panic thesis emerged and was made famous by which of the following fields
sociology
consensus
the achievement of social unity through shared agreement
demonization
the act of labeling individual or group whose norm, attitudes, or behavior is seen to constitute "evilness"
youth
the imprecise period bt infancy and adulthood. in the media, reporting of crime, youth tends to be more frequently linked to offending than victimization
deviancy amplification spiral
the moral discourse established by journalists and various other authorities, opinion leaders, and moral entrepreneurs, who collectively demonize a perceived wrong doer as a source of moral decline
stigmatizing
the process by which an individual or group is discredited bc of some aspects of their appearance or behavior
it has been that moral panics have their origins in moral crusades such as
the prohibition movement of 1900-1920s the european witch hunts of the 16th & 17th century the witch hunts in Salem Massachusetts
which of the following are not considered to be moral crusaders of contemporary society
the public
social reaction
the social process characterizing responses to crime and deviance
exaggeration and distortion was thus key elements in the meeting of the required
threshold
According to the deviancy amplification spiral, crime as news is the selective portrayal of crime in the media
true
Group identity is thus at least as likely to be a statement of style and status as it is to be an act of resistance through ritual.
true
Moral panics will also frequently involve the news value predictability.
true
Stanley Cohen has been credited as providing the first systematic empirical study of the media amplification of deviancy and subsequent public responses.
true
