Stanley Cohen on Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Classic Collection Series
- Grade Level: Adult
- Subjects: Psychology
- Produced By: VEA Group Pty Ltd
- Year: 1999
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 25m
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A wet bank holiday weekend in Clacton: some fights broke out on the beach, huts were damaged and somebody fired a starting pistol. Hardly a riot, but that was how the media reported it. Reading the reports, Stan Cohen thought it would be an ideal case study for the newly evolving labeling theory. He describes his research in a number of seaside resorts, ploughing through newspaper reports, visiting social control agencies in suit and tie and changing to do participant observation research on the beaches in the clubs.