Deviance and Sexuality Part B Flashcards
what theory is associated with objectivists?
structural functionalist
what theories are associated with subjectivists?
symbolic interactionism
critical theory
power-reflexive
what is the issue with sexual deviance today?
methodology and ethics
who was involved in social construction of social problems?
Stuart Isaacs
in what context do we have to look at social problems?
politically and socially
- look at bigger picture
social problems often ______
social structural problems
what are some of reason for social problems appearing and disappearing?
- 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
what is the social construction of prostitution?
Deviance Dance
morality > public health > victimization > worker rights
who were viewed as deviant from the symbolic interactionism pov?
the flapper
what is a Flapper?
young, urban women in 1920s who were independent
- revealing/tight clothing, makeup, short hair
- later hours, dancced, drank, smoked, sex
- shopped for pleasure
what happened with industrialization increased?
- women became educated and were allowed to vote allowing them to gain some control and freedom
who created the movie “The Flapper”?
- Jane Nichols
what was The Flapper about?
- starred Olive Thomas who died few months after release of movie from accidental overdose
how did the media contribute to the panic about flappers?
moral panic created through exaggerated and sensationalized concern over flappers
- the discussion about Thomas death was critical point against flappers
what are some other cases of moral panic?
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
what did society project onto flappers/women’s bodies?
social anxieties which were the downfall of nation/Canadian race
what kinds of social anxieties were projected?
- immigration
- urbanization
- morality
- drug
- women’s emancipation (do we want women to have power and be able to vote
how are flappers social typed?
- 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
critical theorists’ pov
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
what are critical researchers interested in?
studying deviant/normal sexuality focus on manner in which elite discourses given sexuality
- governance and regulation of sexual behavior
who has the power of establishing norms?
- religious groups: christians (against same-sex)
- dr: homosexuality =disease
- educators: gay/les studies introduced. resistance to teaching and gender expression
- state: sodomy laws
who criticized Kathleen Wynne and why?
- McNaughton
- social conservatism
- she was an open lesbian woman
what did each grade teach?
5: expression
6: masturbation
7: sexting
8: same-sex relations
structural marxism
- 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)
instrumental marxism
social rules protect capitalists
- seeking market access/expansion
- desire for legalization of sexual deviance
power-reflexive theories
- 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
what is the criteria for determining deviance?
- consent
- nature of sexual partner
- nature of sexual act
- location of act
- frequency of act
polygamy
- more than one spouse at a time (illegal)
polygyny
male with more than one wife
- second wife elevates the status of first wife
- wealth impacts taking multiple wives
- animosity may exist between wives
polyandry
female with more than one husband
- usually keeps family assets intact
- reduces offspring as labor source and lineage
Bountiful story
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
Incorrigible
- Velma Demerson
- white woman married to Chinese man
- police arrested her under incorrigible laws (father reported her)
- interracial marriages not allowed
what is the primary defining feature of normal sexuality?
consent
- agreement to engage in sexual activity
what is deviant sex?
sex without consent
- before 1983 there was no consent even if married
what is known as the date rape drug?
rohypnol
can alcohol intoxication be used as evidence in sexual assault cases?
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
who conducted a poorly executed research study, what was it called and why was it poor?
- Laud Humphreys
- Tearoom Trade: Impersonal sex in public places
- breached many ethics
what location did Humphreys conduct the study and why?
- public restrooms
- accessible
- easily recognized by initiate
- little public visibility
- stalls offered privacy
what was the outcomes of the tea room interviews?
- consenting adults
- quick sex
- when i want it
- always find someone to perform fellatio
- 4 orgasms/ day
- variety of men
what were the criticism of the tea room study?
- 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]
