The Mods and Rockers panic reflected wider societal anxieties about youth, technology, and moral decline rather than the actual scale of antisocial behaviour.

Evidence

Folk Devils and Moral Panics (The Sociology Guy)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Folktales can escalate into moral panics in troubled times. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 77; Moral panics reflect deeper social tensions rather than real threats. — Moral Panic; Moral panics arise from cultural strains caused by social change and serve as mechanisms of social control reinforcing existing power dynamics. — Moral Panic | Social Sciences and Humanities | Research Starters (+3 more)

Related

• Moral panics reflect deeper social tensions rather than real threats. (similarity 0.91)
• In his study, the folk devils were the violent youth subcultures, ‘mods and rockers’. The creation of folk devils can kickstart a moral panic. (similarity 0.85)
• Youth deviant groups create cultural friction during social change. (similarity 0.83)
• A moral panic sometimes passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory. (similarity 0.81)
• The creation of folk devils can kickstart a moral panic, with violent youth subcultures as the folk devils. (similarity 0.80)
• Fuelling moral panics and creating folk devils are blunt public health tools with potential for consequences that bludgeon the vulnerable. (similarity 0.79)
• Moral panics are characterized by an exaggerated, stylized folk devil perceived as threatening the social order, which attracts public hostility. (similarity 0.78)