观点道德

Carry on Panicking
媒体渲染的“道德恐慌”


FT专栏作家库柏:每隔一段时间,英国大众媒体就会渲染一场“道德恐慌”,把某个人群描述为“民间恶魔”。“道德恐慌”的结果,是让警方得到了更大的权力和更多的预算。

Easter 1964 was cold in the English seaside town of Clacton. Bored young visitors - some of them Mods, others Rockers, in the fashion parlance of the day - began to misbehave. Stones were thrown. “Those on bikes roared up and down, windows were broken, some beach huts were wrecked and one boy fired a starting pistol in the air,” wrote the young sociologist Stanley Cohen in his classic Folk Devils and Moral Panics in 1972.

1964年复活节,英格兰海滨小镇克拉克顿(Clacton)天气寒冷。百无聊赖的年轻游客——用当时的话来说,有些是摩登派(Mods),有些是摇滚派(Rockers)——开始胡作非为。他们投掷石块。“骑自行车的人大肆喧哗,砸碎玻璃窗,捣毁沙滩小屋。一个男孩向天空鸣射发令枪,”当时的年轻社会学家斯坦利•科恩(Stanley Cohen)在他1972年的经典著作《民间恶魔与道德恐慌》(Folk Devils and Moral Panics)中写道。

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