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| Campaigning and Moral Enterprise |
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| -Defining Deviance is a moral enterprise |
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Those involved in constructing deviance
-Rule Creators
-Rule Enforcers |
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| Private individuals and groups who: define deviance, push awareness, transform norms, laws, social trends |
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-Awareness (show problem, dangers, solutions)
-Moral conversion (media stunts, protests)
-moral panics
-emotions evoke fear |
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| Necessary Elements for Moral Entrepreneurship success |
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- ripe time
- specific trigger incident
- widespread dissemination of content and claims
- eventual decline
- ever-changed landscape |
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| stigmatizes or maintains some behavior |
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| those who participate denigrated as less moral than those who abstain |
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| Why Some Social --- Succeed and Some Fail to Become Moral Panics |
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| Assumes panic is overblown/ misplaced, bias |
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| Ideal Moral Panic Process |
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-Competing voices (preferably with prestige)
-Comprehensible Story
-Accessibility (chance of encounter)
-Clear Narrative
-Narrative Lends to Visual Portrayal
-Narrative has positive outcome/ solution
-Narrative incorporates existing expectations |
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| Barriers to the Moral Panic Process |
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-No Competing Voices
-Knowledge Gaps
-Narratives to complex
-Issue embarrassing for powerful interest groups
-little chance of personal encounter
-small public response -> media ignores |
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| Unlaunched: Child Porn Panic |
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-Lack of technical understanding
-No incentive to increase understanding
-lack of media access
-public invisibility
-lumped with other groups (child access to porn) |
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| Gender, Race, Urban Policing (Brunson, Miller) |
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-black men accosted, kept from public places, antagonistic language
-women unwelcome at night, unmet desire for protection
-space overpoliced/ underprotected |
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| Homophobia and Women's Sport (Blinde, Taub) |
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-arenas of threat: buisness, politics, athletics
-Threatening non-women: masculinity highlighted/ ridiculed; discredits, reinforces gender roles; reinforces and reflects homophobia.
-Silence within organizations surrounding stereotype
-internalized lesbian stereotype & neg. connotation, emphasized femininity
-femininity became primary identity, athlete comes second, denigrate lesbians |
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| Mark of a Criminal Record (Pager) |
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-White w/o record: 34%
-White w/ record: 17%
-Black w/o record: 14%
-Black w/ record: 5%
-Effect of record is 40% higher in blacks
-Expansion: 60% of employers claimed to have no problems hiring drug offenders |
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| Resisting Labeling (Saints and Roughnecks) |
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-Upper middle class was percieved as smart boys just spreading wild oats, teachers and parents trusted and adored them. Grew up successful
-Lower class boys were always getting into trouble, seen as dangerous, got bad grades. Now work menial jobs
-Some people have a "halo effect," acts arent defined as deviant |
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-how you think about yourself/ label yourself
-guides how we see ourselves, how we see/treat others |
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| identity that is non-normative |
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| unrecognized, unlabeled deviance. No identity development |
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| recognized, labeled deviance. Development of identity |
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| Embraced deviant identity, fights designation of deviance (gay rights. fat acceptance) |
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| Deviant Identity Career (Adler & Adler) |
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-caught, publicly identified
-retrospective interpretation
-tarnished reputation, spoiled identity
-dynamics of exclusion
-inclusion in deviant circles, activities
-differential treatment
-internalization of deviant identity |
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| Doctors Resistance to Labeling |
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-Malpractices costs $80 Billion a year/ 400,000 lives
-"Protective Cloak": status, altruism, self-regulation
-Crimes like: kickbacks, prescriptions violations, unnecessary treatment, sexual misconduct, medicaid fraud/ abuse |
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