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Moral Panics.
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10th March 2004 Moral Panics Sarah Thornton, a sociologist describes deviance as anything that is considered not normal within society. Moral panics were first studied in 1963 by sociology undergraduate Stan Cohen. Stan Cohen was studying sociology in Johannesburg, who flew over to England, at the time when there was a he media interest in the mods and rockers. What actually happened was that on a slow news day, there was a fight at a small seaside village which involved mods and rockers. With no other stories, the media circled in on this, and reported it, but exaggerated it greatly. So what was a handful of mods and rockers fighting became several hundreds of them brawling, and causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage. Stan Cohen realised this, and began to follow media coverage. Stan Cohen suggests that the following occurs when there is a moral panic. With the extensive media coverage, by...
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