Constructing Deviance

Constructing Deviance

1. Moral Entrepreneurs

   • Construct Moral Meaning - Institutions - Agencies - Symbols - Communication
   • Deviance Making
     • Rule Creating - Politicians - Crusaders - Teachers - Parents - School - Administrators - Business Leaders
     • Rule Enforcing - Police - Prosecutors - Judges - Agents
   • Rule Creating
     • Individuals - First Lady - John Walsh (Most Wanted) - Michael Moore (Business & Violence)
     • Groups- Mothers against drunk driving - Group against smoking pollution
     • Moral Entrepreneurs - Public morality - Awareness of problem
     • Claims Making - Danger messages - Drunk Driving - Hate Crimes - Second hand smoking
     • Stages - Rhetorical Methods - Claimsmakers (Elements of drama_ - Seek & attract media - Seek Support

2. Differential Social Power: Labeling

   • Money - Campaign contributions to sway politicians
   • Race & Ethnicity - Dominate white group behaviors
   • Gender- Women have less social power
   • Age - Less respect for society

3. Differential Social Power: Resisting Labeling

   • Some groups have greater resources to avoid being labeled
   • May hire media or legal experts positive collective images
   • Not all engage in expected gender behavior
     • - Includes stigmatization - Encourage compliance
   • Womens Violation of Traditional gender role norms
     • Threat to Patriarchy
   • Lesbianism in Women's Sport
     • Personal and Irrelevant
     • Disguising Athletic identity to avoid lesbian level

4. Social Construction of drug scares Reinarman

   • Drug scares & Drug Laws
     • Cultural origins Understood
     • Marked public concern
     • Alcohol- Led by middle class
     • Anti-Opium - 1875 against Chinese immigrants
     • Anti-Marijuana - Laws of Great Depression
     • 1980s Crack cocaine scare
     • 7 Elements - Kernel of truth - Media magnification - Politico-moral entrepreneurs - Professional interests groups - Historical context of conflict - Dangerous class - Scapegoating a drug
   • Toward a Culturally specific theory of drug scares
     • Drug scares occur more
       • -Claims about evil of drugs - Self Control - New consumer culture

5. Blowing smoke: Status politics & Smoking Ban Tuggle and Holmes

   • Status Politics & Creation of Deviance
     • Deviance socially constructed - Define and construct reality- Status conflicts - Political competition - Upper social strata
     • Assimilative or Coercive Reforms
       • Assimilative- Sympathy for deviant engenders
       • Coercive- Deviants viewed as denying moral
     • Moral Entrepreneur cannot succeed alone
   • Status Politics of Cigarette Smoking
     • - End smoking in public facilities - Smoking universally accepted - Socially deviant
     • - Bodily Purity - Lifestyle of working class - Early remedial efforts focused on publicizing the perils of smoking
     • -Remaining smokers enemy - Social control to ban efforts - Rooted in moral crusaders - Lower social status

6. Disadvantage of a good Reputation: Disney as a target for social problems claims Best and Lowney

   • Bad Reputations - Enduring stigma - Negative stereotypes
   • Good Reputations - Convey advantages - High Grade point - Open doors for individuals that remain closed
   • Claimsmakers - Compete in social problems - Rhetorical elements - Revise and rework claims
   • Blowback - Negative consequences - Good reputations can be susceptible
   • Claimsmaking rhetoric of Disney Corporation
     • - Conservative Christians - Political Progressives - Social Scientists
       • Conservative Christians
         • - Boycott Disney - Helping to fund other - AFA called boycott
       • Political Progressives
         • - Challenged Disney's reputation - Unionization of its workers - Third-World working conditions - Endorsing capitalism - Promoting hegemonic
       • Social Scientists
         • - Inauthentic Experience - Offer fun- Controlled behavior - Social Trends

7. Legitimated Suppression: Inner- City Mexican- Americans and the Police Duran

   • Policing Gangs
     • - Gang Members Labeled by police - Most Poor
   • - 3 or more people - Intellegience gathering - "Lock-em" approach
   • Mathods & Settings
     • Study Focus & Design
       • - Two barrio communities - Over 5 ear period - Ethnographic Research Methods
         • - Direct Observation - Casual Interaction - Semi- Structured Interviews - Inrospection - Photography - Videotaping
   • Systematic Suppression
     • - Intelligence gathering - "Broken-Window Theory"

8. Homophobia & Women's Sport Blind and Taub

   • Central to Patriarchal Society is Well-Established Gender Order
     • - Defined Norms - Via socialization network

9. Mark of a Criminal Record Pager

   • Consequences of incarceration on employment for black and white men
   • Trends in Incarceration
     • 2 Million incarcerated - Longer sentences - Little Planning - Recidivism High
     • - Limited future employment and earnings
     • - If criminal record differs for black and whit job applicants - Little or no previous research

10. The Saints and the Roughnecks Chambliss

    • Saints
      • - Getting out of school early - Minimum Danger of detection
      • - Activities Committing crimes
        • - Highly Successful in school - Role models - cheating on exams
    • Roughnecks
      • - Opposite of saints
      • Seen negativly as heading for trouble
      • Constantly in trouble
      • Not meeting academic standards

11. Doctors and the Context of Medical Crime and Deviance Liederbach

    • "Protective Cloak"
    • - Privileged caste - Honored rank - Attributes connected
    • Altruism - Creates assumption
    • Autonomy - Medical review boards - Immune to legal scrutiny -Facilitate criminal opportunities

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