Mods & Rockers

What is a moral?
- A moral is something that someone thinks is right - most people believe it is right/wrong.

What is a panic?
-  A panic is a sudden uncontrollable anxiety causing wildly unthinkable behaviour.

Mods & Rockers
Rockers

• Leather Jackets
• Motor Bikes
• Studs
• rings
• Tattoos

Mods

• suits
• Scooters
• Smart
• clean
• Neat

In the 60's teens got money and didn't have to work for the government any more.

These two different groups had different ideologies, they didn't like each other.

1964 - Brighton beach changed how the media reported and perceived these two groups of teens and how the rest of society understood the representation of teenagers, forever?

Images used by the press showed the teens as ;

• violent
• Reckless
• Rebellious
• Immature

However they could've chosen other images that showed something more positive rather than focussing on the negative.

didn't have the internet, they only had one channel to represent themselves through.

the press over exaggerated the events and demonised the teens and made them out to be worse ans much more violent and aggressive. they folk devilled teenagers and made other members of society scared of them. the press encouraged young people to fight so they could create stories in the media to manipulate how society viewed teenagers.

• Vermin
• Odious louts
• Mutated locusts
• sawdust Caesar's
• Internal enemies

'Grubby hordes of louts and sluts'

How do the press report a moral panic?

1. Exaggeration & Distortion - 'over-reporting' using emotive language and repetition of false stories.
2. Prediction - If it has happened once before it is bound to happen again.
3. Symbolism - Signs represent a moral panic for e.g. interviews that are dramatised and over exaggerated to let them hear what they want to say.

Stan Cohen - 1972

'A moral panic occurs when a condition, episode, persons or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests'.

What does a moral panic consist of?

1. Concern - Awareness of a negative impact on society
2. Thestility - Towards the group to separate them from the rest of society and to 'folk devil' them from us.
3. Consensus - A wide group of society accept the threat of the group in question
4. Disproportionality - the action taken is disproportionate to the actual threat posed
5. Volatility - They can easily disappear as soon as they came and move on to a new topic.

What other moral panics are there?

- Jimmie Saville & the 80's entertainers

- Social workers & lack of capability (baby P)

- Drug culture

- London riots

- Video games & violent behaviours

- Trolling