Moral panic

This is a classic example of a moral panic-

James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a two-year-old boy from kirkby, Mersyside, England, who was anducted, tortured and murdered. The perpetrators were two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982). Bulger disappeared on 12 February 1993 from the new strand shopping centre, bottle, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line in nearby walton on 14 February. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with the abduction and murder.

This became a moral pani as everyone was starting to worry about there children and everyone else around them. The media react negativly towards the victuims and people starting reacting nagativly towards anyone that was on the sex offenders list or who had aducted children this is known as CULTURAL HEGEMONY.

Timeline

Hippies - 1960 till the 1966 - The hippies wore tie dyed clothing and wore only organic and clothes that were not made from any substance from animals. They enjoyed going to festivals like Glanstenbury and liked listening to music such as THE WHO.

Mods - Late 1950 till the 1960's - The mods wore italian tailer made suits and enjoyed looking sophisticated. They enjoyed riding the motorbikes around the seaside scenery, and every so often they would meet up with the Rockers to start a feud this always ended up with people getting arrested and paople getting hurt.

Rockers - 1950 till the 1970's - The rockers wore leather jackets with brylcream in there hair and doctor martion shoes. There leather jacket often contained safety pins and massive studs. There idols where Elvis Presly and The beatles. The often meet the Mods down down at deserlate locations, the most well known meeting was at Brighton where many people got arrested and fined.

Skinheads - 1960's till the 1977 - Skinheads got there name from have a close shaven or bald head. They had many tattoos and wore t-shirt, flight jacket, jean, Dr.martins and braces. They enjoyed listening to a band known as the 2 TONE.

Ravers - 1970 till the 1980 - The ravers where hardcore party animals and enjoyed getting stoned and drunk, this happened on a general bases. The ravers like to listen to music like THE NAILS.

Gamers - 1970's till present - Gamers are well known for people who spend hours a day on computer games or as known today on social network sites. Gamers are still present today and infact are more widely known today this is because technology is growing and becoming more advance. It started of when people were obesesed with playing PAC MAN.

Punk - 1975 till present- Punks where known for having outrages hair and bold make-up. They wore bright neon colours or just black clothing. They listened to Garage music or punk rock. The pucks are kost commonly know for the dancing moshing.

Goth - 1982 till present - Punks are know for having dark dull make up and wearing completely black and over the top clothing. They enjoy listening to music such as SLIP KNOT and enjoy preaching to the spirits and talking to the dead.

EMO`s - 1985 till present - EMO stands for emotional hardcore. EMO`s are know for wearing bright colours with darks colours and have outragoues coloured hair. There make-up was very extreme and false. In the late 80`s EMO`s where known for glamoursing salf harm and suicede.

Skaters - 1990`s till present - skaters are often similare to punk except they enjoy hardcore sport such as skatebording and roller blading. They genereally wore old clothing with rips and mud all over them and wore a beanie to cover there head.

what simlarties exist between youth cultures?

Each groups likes to follow there own style and expresses there emotions through there appearance.

what can you learn form the lenght of time they were active for?

From each group i have learnt that back when the youth culture were about they were very big and made a huge statement in there time.

why do youth cultures exist?

Youth cultures exsit because young adults and teenagers are aloud to express themselves through there appearance and the culture the belong to.

Prediction on how youth culture may change.

My prediction is that youth culture is going to become more diverse due to the fact as technology is growing and there is alot more pressure to fit in, the youth are going to make a statement to show that they are a individual and are wanting to follow themselves not what other people have. As technology is growing more people are competing with one another to try and have upto date technology. So i believe as technology and opinions are changing in the world more people are going to become anti social and more aggressive.

How is the authority figure in Human Traffic Represented?

The authority of Jips mother and her client are shown in very differemt views. One view is that Jips mother is a sterotypical mum, Caring ,Protective and enjoy`s having her son around. However her job makes her seem on a lower social class and makes us the viewer have a negative view on her because she is a prostitute. Just because she has a lower class job, she still has a higher authority figure because when Jip says "i am leaving now mum." His mother persuades him to stay. It is a completly different view for Jips mothers client, Jip has imagines the client in his car talking down to him, this is shown by a low angle from Jips point of view. The client is talking aggressive with no care for Jip and his feelings, with the man wearing formal clothing it makes him on a higher social class , this is a classic example of Cultural Hegemony. Cultural Hegemony is when a social class is dominated by another socila class - Bourgesis and proterterate.

Inside a magazine

• Bold distinctive colours
• Promoting the CD of the artist
• Prices of the Cd itself from HMV
• The colour of the background tells us the viewer what sort of genre this CD`s are.
• The image in the background is selling the artist and promoting her CD and also her style. By this i mean people will start dressing and acting like her because they ahve repeatable seen her in a magzine.
• The CD`s are not level which makes them stand out more and make them more individual.
• Not just promoting one age but a whole range. E.G. The Cindy lauper CD is aimed at adults as they will remenise on there youth.