Reporting the Riots

Parenting Culture and the Problem of Authority in Media Analysis of August 2011

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2642870
AutoresJustin Bristow (0000-0003-4642-2535, University of Kent, autor correspondente), Jennie Bristow
Ano2013
Volume18
Fascículo4
Páginas100-110
Data de publicação2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.3147
OpenAlexW2015770194
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas27

This article reviews the results of a small study of the national British newspapers in the period immediately following the 2011 riots, which analyses the ways in which political and media discourse linked the riots to the problem of 'parenting'. It examines three discourses that arise from this linkage: (a) a generalised 'moral collapse'; (b) the specific problem of 'troubled families'; and (c) parenting policy and the problem of discipline. From this, I propose there is a fourth, 'missing discourse', which would situate the problem of parental authority within a wider crisis of adult authority. Drawing on historical and sociological reflections on the problem of parental authority in the late modern period, I propose that a more fruitful discussion would take account of the ways in which parenting culture and policy has challenged assumptions about generational responsibility

Criminology · Discourse analysis · Media studies · Moral panic · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Family Support in Illness · Gender Studies · Law · Social Work Education and Practice · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics