Constructing Deviance Flashcards
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What are Moral Entrepreneurs (ME)
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- people who have a strong sense of what is right and wrong and try to impose that thought on to others through oral enterprise
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From what do ME draw resources from
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- institutional/ agencies
- symbols and ideas
- audiences
3
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What are the two types of ME?
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- POLITICIANS (MADD, GASP)
- LAW ENFORCES (Police and judges)
4
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Why does ME ensure there is a constant stock of deviance?
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- They continue to make certain people the threat
- try to transform private morality to normative order
- governed by self interest
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The Three Stages of ME rule creation
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- Raise awareness
- Conversion
- Moral Panic
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Explain the first stage of rule creation
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- use of media and news outlets
- personal testimonials
- statistical and numerical data as backup
- following anamoly dramatic cases
- suggesting solutions to the cases
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Explain the second stage Conversation
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- turning previously neutral parties into support of the cause
- claims makers compete with each other to push their problems to the front of the news articles
- get sponsorships to push their stories
- hunger strikes, demonstration of civil disobedience
- drawing on novelty and politics
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The Third Stage –> Moral panic
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- broad awareness and moral conversation
- promotion of terror and dread in particular target
- irrational overreactions
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Moral panic characteristics
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- temporary
- generated by media attention draws attention to the target group
- stimulated by legislative change
- shows power struggles between different worldviews
- triggered by a specific event and at the targeted time
- bolstered the revelation of provocative information
- carried through formal and informal communication
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Differential Social Power: Labelling
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- money can sway politicians from supporting and rejecting certain causes
- race and ethnicity of the dominant group are less likely to be labelled deviant
- women are less influential and have less social power and thus, more likely to be subject to labelling
- younger and older people have less power in society thus, are more likely to be labelled
- powerful people have enough resources and social influence to reject being labelled deviant themselves
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What are drug scares?
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- Anti-drug crusades in the form of a moral panic typically lead by politico-media figures
- ideologically constructed
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Alcohol Ban as a drug scare
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- temperance movement to prohibition due to upper-class white protestant Americans reacting to middle-class immigrants and their drinking habits
- hangover was reducing productivity
- alcohol was banned for reasons that were more economically and politically related than the nature of immigrants
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Second example of anti-opium laws
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- started in San-Francisco
- opiums were in major commercial products (coke)
- came with Chinese immigrants
- racial hatred towards Chinese immigrants for taking up jobs and the opium crisis
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Third example –> anti-marijuana laws
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- played a racial fear of marijuana
- Mexicans were used as cheap labours and became a source for competition in the labour
- they were scape goated for economic depression
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Fourth example LSD crisis
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- crisis in America generated from the hippie culture
- talked about how LSD changes chromosomes in the brain with leads to youths acting out of order
- fear generated from youths rejecting conventional life choices
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the fifth example - is anti-cocaine laws
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- use of cocaine skyrocketed in the 70s
-politicians used ethnic minorities as the problem - new laws passed increasing social control over powerless groups
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What are the 7 elements of a drug scare?
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- based on some kernal of truth
- media magnification (dramatization)
- Polticial ME
- Professional interest groups (police)
- historical context
- link to a minority ethnic and social class
- scapegoating
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Why does Reinarman argue that Drug crusades are beneficial for the dominant group?
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- it allows for social elite to maintain dominance of their moral code
- allows the dominance of one group over the other (scapegoating)
- allows certain individuals to boster fiscal budgets through bureaucratic policies
- mobilize voter support
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Why is scapegoating reaonsble method for drug crusades in the US
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- gives something to blame for greater social problems
- protestant values and capitalism feeds on self-control (anything against this is a threat)
Key* consumerism goes against self-control yet it is not viewed as a threat
