Deviance and Sexuality Part B

Question 1

what theory is associated with objectivists?

Answer 1

structural functionalist

Question 2

what theories are associated with subjectivists?

Answer 2

symbolic interactionism
critical theory
power-reflexive

Question 3

what is the issue with sexual deviance today?

Answer 3

methodology and ethics

Question 4

who was involved in social construction of social problems?

Answer 4

Stuart Isaacs

Question 5

in what context do we have to look at social problems?

Answer 5

politically and socially
- look at bigger picture

Question 6

social problems often ______

Answer 6

social structural problems

Question 7

what are some of reason for social problems appearing and disappearing?

Answer 7

• govt policy: anti-prostitution laws
• newsworthy events: little sisters bookstore, pornography and how easy it is for children to access
• noticeable social change: urbanization, industrialization
• scale of issue: how many impacted, life/death
• voices: prominent people (mother teresa)
• advancements in sci/research: birth control

Question 8

what is the social construction of prostitution?

Answer 8

Deviance Dance
morality > public health > victimization > worker rights

Question 9

who were viewed as deviant from the symbolic interactionism pov?

Answer 9

the flapper

Question 10

what is a Flapper?

Answer 10

young, urban women in 1920s who were independent
- revealing/tight clothing, makeup, short hair
- later hours, dancced, drank, smoked, sex
- shopped for pleasure

Question 11

what happened with industrialization increased?

Answer 11

• women became educated and were allowed to vote allowing them to gain some control and freedom

Question 12

who created the movie “The Flapper”?

Answer 12

• Jane Nichols

Question 13

what was The Flapper about?

Answer 13

• starred Olive Thomas who died few months after release of movie from accidental overdose

Question 14

how did the media contribute to the panic about flappers?

Answer 14

moral panic created through exaggerated and sensationalized concern over flappers
- the discussion about Thomas death was critical point against flappers

Question 15

what are some other cases of moral panic?

Answer 15

Immigrants coming to Canada before WW1
- immigrants were threatening the image that Canadians were strong and hardworking
- 30-50% of men failed war screening which blew their image
- men went to war and came back with disabilities (healthy came back unhealthy)
- Spanish flu took thousands of people out
- Soldiers came back with STIs

Question 16

what did society project onto flappers/women’s bodies?

Answer 16

social anxieties which were the downfall of nation/Canadian race

Question 17

what kinds of social anxieties were projected?

Answer 17

• immigration
• urbanization
• morality
• drug
• women’s emancipation (do we want women to have power and be able to vote

Question 18

how are flappers social typed?

Answer 18

• description: flapper
• eval: (marilyn munroe) dumb Dora, floozy, phony
• prescription: purchasing power: women and rise of canadian consumer culture. Catholic church: women who showed bare skin were living in sin. League against Indecency in Dress: demanded stores stop selling dresses as it invited sexual assault

Question 19

critical theorists’ pov

Answer 19

subjectivist
- deviance = people, behavior, or characteristics that people in power say are in need of control
- deviance is the result of violation of dominant moral codes
- moral codes determined by the powerful

Question 20

what are critical researchers interested in?

Answer 20

studying deviant/normal sexuality focus on manner in which elite discourses given sexuality
- governance and regulation of sexual behavior

Question 21

who has the power of establishing norms?

Answer 21

• religious groups: christians (against same-sex)
• dr: homosexuality =disease
• educators: gay/les studies introduced. resistance to teaching and gender expression
• state: sodomy laws

Question 22

who criticized Kathleen Wynne and why?

Answer 22

• McNaughton
• social conservatism
• she was an open lesbian woman

Question 23

what did each grade teach?

Answer 23

5: expression
6: masturbation
7: sexting
8: same-sex relations

Question 24

structural marxism

Answer 24

• social rules protect capitalism
• concerns over individual bodies not serving the social body
• concerned with flappers because they were a threat (declining the quality of Canadian race)

Question 25

instrumental marxism

Answer 25

social rules protect capitalists
- seeking market access/expansion
- desire for legalization of sexual deviance

Question 26

power-reflexive theories

Answer 26

• michel foucault
• socially constructed knowledge and regulation concerning heter/homosexuality impacts experience of being gay/queer
• heterosexuality standard
• self-surveillance/discipline (panopticon)
• impacts how you see self and how you experience self
• it is the not knowing that we internalize and change behavior

Question 27

what is the criteria for determining deviance?

Answer 27

• consent
• nature of sexual partner
• nature of sexual act
• location of act
• frequency of act

Question 28

polygamy

Answer 28

• more than one spouse at a time (illegal)

Question 29

polygyny

Answer 29

male with more than one wife
- second wife elevates the status of first wife
- wealth impacts taking multiple wives
- animosity may exist between wives

Question 30

polyandry

Answer 30

female with more than one husband
- usually keeps family assets intact
- reduces offspring as labor source and lineage

Question 31

Bountiful story

Answer 31

Moore
- says living his religion
- many women married to Blackmoore reported sexual abuse and some 14 yrs old
- there is no such thing as good polygamy
- sexual exploitation, child brides, not enough women for other men

Question 32

Incorrigible

Answer 32

• Velma Demerson
• white woman married to Chinese man
• police arrested her under incorrigible laws (father reported her)
• interracial marriages not allowed

Question 33

what is the primary defining feature of normal sexuality?

Answer 33

consent
- agreement to engage in sexual activity

Question 34

what is deviant sex?

Answer 34

sex without consent
- before 1983 there was no consent even if married

Question 35

what is known as the date rape drug?

Answer 35

rohypnol

Question 36

can alcohol intoxication be used as evidence in sexual assault cases?

Answer 36

Craig: no matter how severely intoxicated a woman was when sexual contact occurred, courts are unlikely to find that she lacked capacity to consent unless she was unconscious during some or all of it

Question 37

who conducted a poorly executed research study, what was it called and why was it poor?

Answer 37

• Laud Humphreys
• Tearoom Trade: Impersonal sex in public places
• breached many ethics

Question 38

what location did Humphreys conduct the study and why?

Answer 38

• public restrooms
• accessible
• easily recognized by initiate
• little public visibility
• stalls offered privacy

Question 39

what was the outcomes of the tea room interviews?

Answer 39

• consenting adults
• quick sex
• when i want it
• always find someone to perform fellatio
• 4 orgasms/ day
• variety of men

Question 40

what were the criticism of the tea room study?

Answer 40

• no informed consent from men studied
• located men for follow-up by running license plate numbers (without consent)
• presented himself as “health survey” researcher to gain info about marital status (deceit)
• put men in potential risk (risk of harm to subjects vs benefits of research to society) [sodomy was crime- jail if caught, most men married to women - if caught could get divorced]