SOCI: Moral Panics hw

I would appreciate it if you could refer to the reading files I attaached or search; for the meaning and explanation of the *materials and *thing to consider below. 

1. Panics of the Past (moral panics before moral panic studies)

           Four Faces of Moral Panic (very basic)

                       Movie Panics (Nickelodeons)

                       Comic Book Panics

                       Music Panics

                       Pin Ball Panics

                       (Plus the Momo Challenge)

2.  Roots of Moral Panic Studies (where did moral panic studies come from?)

Radical Criminology and the Skeptical Movement

Social Construction of Social Problems (subjective/objective approaches)

Constructionist Approaches to Deviance

Labeling Theory/Hierarchy of Credibility/Howard Becker

Moral Crusaders and Moral Entrepreneurs (are they different?)

3.  Satanic Ritual Abuse Panics

                       McMartin Daycare 1983

                       Master Symbols

                                   Vulnerable Children, Menacing Devil, Trauma

Processual Stages (inventory, innovation, diffusion)

Signification Spirals

Moral Entrepreneurs/Motivations? (interest group, elite engineered, grassroots)

           Role of (Tabloid) Media

Some limitations of Conventional Moral Panic Theory (that emerged from the Satanic panics—“innovations” in moral panic theory)

4. Video Nasties (depending on how far we get in class on January 24)

                       Conditions of Emergence

Processual Stages

Signification Spirals

           Expanding range of folk devils

Moral Entrepreneurs/Motivations? (interest group, elite engineered, grassroots)

           Role of Newspaper Media

           Nested Panics

                       Two Episodes (possible 3): 1981-2, 1982-4, and possibly even 1981-4

Things to Consider

1.         Identify and differentiate three conventional motivations behind moral panic episodes. Offer classical examples of each motivation. Do you think that they are discrete or mutually exclusive motivations?

2.         What is conventional moral panic theory? What is the purpose of conventional moral panic theory?

3.         What is labeling theory and radical/skeptical criminology (or radical approaches to deviance)? What influence did they have on the rise of moral panic studies? How did the social constructionist approach to social problems influence moral panic studies? What is the main difference between labeling and moral panic theory?

5.         Explain how Simon Watney’s work on male homosexuality influenced moral panic research. What kind of moral panic theory did Watney help to popularize?

6.         Explain the video nasties and/or Satanic ritual abuse panic(s) using Cohen’s processual/stage model of deviance amplification.

7.         A friend asks you why people in the 1980s believed that Satanic ritual abuse was taking place in and around daycares. How would you explain this to your friend by drawing on the master symbols of the period?

8.         What is a signification spiral? Drawing on material covered in the module, identify and and explain two different significant spirals we have encountered in our case studies.