Deck 32: Moral Panic Versus the Risk Society: the Implications of the Changing Sites of Social Anxiety, Sheldon Ungar

Question 1

According to Ungar, the crucial criteria for moral panics do NOT include ______.

A)Heightened public concern and consensus
B)Hostility and volatility
C)Disproportionality between facts and reaction
D)Complexity in causation

Answer 1

Complexity in causation

Question 2

According to Ungar, commonalities between moral panic and risk society are that _______.

A)Both concepts blame "the folk devils"
B)Both concepts are rooted in collective social anxieties and fears
C)Both concepts center upon stable social events
D)Both concepts involve medical experts as primary claimsmakers

Answer 2

Both concepts are rooted in collective social anxieties and fears

Question 3

According to Ungar, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of risk society?

A)Being unpredictable and latent
B)Not limited by time, space, or social class
C)Not detectable by physical senses
D)They result from natural disasters only

Answer 3

They result from natural disasters only

Question 4

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, many people in the United States panicked and demanded that the state shut down all the nuclear power plants in the country.Yet scientists claim that unclean power plants are actually very safe and unclean energy is a relatively clean and efficient form of energy.According to Ungar, this is an example of ______.

A)A Risk society
B)Moral Panic
C)Edgework
D)Social Pathology

Question 5

According to Ungar, the recent bombing incident in Boston is an example of ______ because the reporting of the incident stirs public uneasiness and directed public rage again to the Muslim extremists.

A)Risk society
B)Social pathology
C)Moral Panic
D)Resistance of the deviance

Question 6

Use the criteria and descriptions Ungar lays out in his article to argue that media coverage of violent crime is (1) a moral panic AND (2) evidence of a society at risk.Please use examples to make your points.