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An 11 page analysis of the events that have unfolded as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The author examines these events, and the history underpinning them, from the perspective of Stanley Cohen's book "Folk Devils and Moral
Panics". Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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The Creation of the Mods and Rockers" is a classic study of how so-called deviant subcultures emerge in society and the role the media plays in that emergence. While
Cohen specifically traces the emergence of the Mods and the Rockers in 1960s Britain, his theories about the emergence of such groups can be applied across society. Indeed, even
within the decade of the mods and the rockers that are the focus of Cohens book, there were numerous other subcultures of equal note. Cohen clarifies that "these years
witnessed rapid occilation from one such devil to another: the mod, the Rocker, the Greaser, the student militant, the drug fiend, the vandal, the soccer hooligan, the hippy, the
skinhead" (Cohen, 2002, 1). There are, in fact, many examples of the validity of Cohens theories across all cultures and all geographic areas. Cohens theories can be just
as aptly applied to the emergence of the stereotypical images of Arabs and other ethnic groups that have emerged in the post-9-11 world after the September 11, 2001 terrorist destruction
of the New York World Trade Center and the subsequent attack on the U.S. Pentagon itself. The role of the media in shaping
the publics perception that some societal groups present a threat is indeed powerful. In his classic analysis of Cohens theories, Critcher (2004) identifies six critical steps in the process
of what Cohen refers to as "folk devils". Although Cohen does not number these steps, they are clearly evident in his description of the phenomena. In the first
step a distinctive episode, condition, individual, group emerges that will ultimately be perceived as the threat (Cohen, 2002, 9). In step two the nature of that episode, condition, individual
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