Critically discuss whether the media are creating a moral panic about welfare dependency in the UK?
Adress the question in the title and talk about policys implemented by labour conservative to stop benefit cheats … Media impact
“scroungers” seen ans underserving govermnet stopping incapity benefits trying get people into work .. Blaming those who have a
disability rather than looking at there circumstances.. Individulas seen as workless! Workshy However in some instances these people
have been in paid work but due to illnesse etc become dependent on welfare … Young people school leavers e.g cannot find work most
jobs involve zero hour contracts i need to give contemporary examples also apprenticeship schemes often always result in jobs. Also how
in recently how there has been a shift and migrants being blamed! And the finacial crisis and new labour Some of the readings
Graithwaite,k 2011 the language of shirkers and scroungers? Talking about illness, disability and society and colaition welfare reform.
Disability and society
Briant, E., Watson, N., and Philo, G. 2013. Reporting disability in the age of austerity: the changing face of media representation of
disability and disabled people in the United Kingdom and the creation of new ‘folk devils’. Disability and Society. 28(6), pp. 874-889.
Briant, E.; Watson, N. and Philo, G. 2011.Bad News for Disabled People: How the newspapers are reporting disability. Strathclyde Centre
for Disability Research and Glasgow Media Unit https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_214917_en.pdf
Brown, K. and Patrick, R. 2012. ‘Re-moralising or De-moralising? The Coalition government’s approach to ‘problematic’ populations:
editorial. People, Place and Policy Online, 6 (1), pp. 1-2 https://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/re-moralising-or-de- moralising/
Cohen, S. 1973. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. London: Paladin.
Critcher, C. 2003. Moral Panics and the Media. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Garthwaite, K. 2013. Fear of the brown envelope: exploring welfare reform with long‐ term sickness benefits recipients. Social Policy
and Administration.
Goode, E. And Ben-Yehouda, N. (1994). Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance. Oxford: Blackwell. (Some readings)
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