Assignment
Length: 1500 words
Demonstrate your knowledge/understanding of moral entrepreneurship, moralpanics and social problems. Satisfactory "demonstration of knowledge and understanding" includes demonstrated knowledge of and familiarity with the four original (required) readings by Kai Erikson, Howard Becker, Brezina and Phipps and Stanley Cohen.
You should be able to trace the development of theories regarding moral entrepreneurship, labelling, moral panics and social problems from Kai Erikson and Howard Becker to Stanley Cohen to Brezina and Phipps. Try to identify (describe) the main elements and/or similarities that tie these readings together. Does the social reaction toward the economically disadvantaged victims of Hurricane Katrina rise to the level of moral entrepreneurship and moral panic described by Becker and Cohen? Try to provide a solid, evidence-based rationale to back up your arguments in favour of (or opposed to) the application of the moral panics/social problems approach to the social reaction in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Read the following articles:
NOTES ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE byKAI T. ERIKSON
Moral Entrepreneurs by Howard Becker
Round Up the Usual Suspects: Crime, Deviance, and the Limits of Constructionism by Erich Goode
Brezina, T. and Phipps, H. E. (2010). False news reports, folk devils, and the role of public officials: Notes on the social construction of law and order in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Deviant Behavior, 31(1), 97-134
Cohen, S. (2011). Whose side are we on? The undeclared politics of moral panics theory. Crime, Culture and Media, 7(23), 237-243.