- Moral Panic - sudden anxiety causing irrational behaviour
- Folk Deviling - taking something that one person has done & use it to stereotype a whole group of similar people.
- Why moral panic? - the media portray things in such a way that it is a disaster even if it existed before.
Mods & Rockers - the mods & rockers riot in Brighton did create an ideology for younger teens by creating a bad stereotype. However teens are now responsible for their own persona - this could've been changed over 40 years to become a good ideology yet it is still the same. Newspapers still use the same words to describe miscreants today as they did 40 years ago.
Mods & Rockers Documentary notes
- Men from the fight hadn't returned to the beach in 50 years
- Men were going away for war leaving wives pregnant and the babies were all teens in the 60's
- Teddy boy gangs - freedom & money
- Tunner boy gangs - motor bikes
- Teens taking risks - no helmets/speed limits
- 1958 - 'new species' - modernists, wanted to create a new ideology, have more money than they ever had before, they're the first generation to not have to do general service
- 'older generations looked on with suspicion' by the clothes & listening to black music
- 'Clackton is afraid of the future'
- 97 youths arrested - caused by boredom on both parts
- 'wild ones' - reference to young people
- changed the identity of Britain.
- journalists give out information as to where the fights were going to take place - like twitter for the London riots.
- 'hunting in packs'
- reporters gave them money to cause a disturbance
- smaller episodes were correct but most were exaggerated
- engineered to show that the police were taking control
- arrested for use of 'foul language'
- police man said the teens weren't that bad
- by 1965 a new collective identity began - mods were pretty much gone.
- number of youths now is a lot less
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