The Dramaturgical Analysis Of Mods And Rokers
This essay will be discussing Mods and Rokers and how this led to a moral panic as Mods and Rockers were seen as a perceived threat to the social order and I will then analyze the role of the folk devil. Mods and Rockers were to conflicting groups in Britain that had differ, went Philosophies in the 1960’s. Conflict first started in Clacton over the Easter weekend in a seaside town in Southern England when the Mods and Rockers vandalized the beach and the and fights then continues again during the Whitsun Bank holiday and this time it look place in Brighton, Margate and Bournemouth and this continued through the summer and this is when they became recognized as the “folk devils”. The police attempted to stop the fighting on the breach and
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He then argues that people engage in what he called the dramaturgical analysis and this would be the idea that individual’s day-to-day lives could be understood by resembling other performers on a particular theatre performance (Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: 221). Just like a theatre, social life has a front stage, which is where actors will present themselves as characters and this is where they will interact with the other players (Giddens, 2009: 292) and what the audience sees and in literal terms it would be what the public says. The back stage would then be what the audience does not see, it is the private world which people create and this is what they keep away from the front stage. People are both actor and audience in a setting and therefore he described each person’s performance as the presentation of self (Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: …show more content…
1986. The Sociology of Moral Panics: Toward a New Synthesis. The Sociological Quarterly. 27(4): 495-513. Available: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4106341. [2014, February 14].
Cohen, S. 2002. Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the mods and rockers. Psychology Press. 9-16.
GIDDENS, A. 2009. On Rereading The Presentation of Self: Some Reflections. Social Psychology Quarterly. 72(4): 290-751. Available: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25677370 [2014, February 14]
(Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: 221-224) Mod, A. 2014. Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem BBC Documentary (Complete). [Video file]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqjnmX3iYM. [2015, May 2]
Thompson, K. 2013. Moral panics. Routledge. 31-39.
Macionis, J.J. & Plummer, K. 2012. Sociology. Pearson Education Limited.
He then argues that people engage in what he called the dramaturgical analysis and this would be the idea that individual’s day-to-day lives could be understood by resembling other performers on a particular theatre performance (Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: 221). Just like a theatre, social life has a front stage, which is where actors will present themselves as characters and this is where they will interact with the other players (Giddens, 2009: 292) and what the audience sees and in literal terms it would be what the public says. The back stage would then be what the audience does not see, it is the private world which people create and this is what they keep away from the front stage. People are both actor and audience in a setting and therefore he described each person’s performance as the presentation of self (Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: …show more content…
1986. The Sociology of Moral Panics: Toward a New Synthesis. The Sociological Quarterly. 27(4): 495-513. Available: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4106341. [2014, February 14].
Cohen, S. 2002. Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the mods and rockers. Psychology Press. 9-16.
GIDDENS, A. 2009. On Rereading The Presentation of Self: Some Reflections. Social Psychology Quarterly. 72(4): 290-751. Available: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25677370 [2014, February 14]
(Macionis, & Plummer, 2012: 221-224) Mod, A. 2014. Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem BBC Documentary (Complete). [Video file]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqjnmX3iYM. [2015, May 2]
Thompson, K. 2013. Moral panics. Routledge. 31-39.
Macionis, J.J. & Plummer, K. 2012. Sociology. Pearson Education Limited.