Fichas
Module 3 Study Guide
Fichas del conjunto (19)
- 1Elements of social power1. money
2. race & ethnicity
3. gender
4. age
5. greater #s and organization can empower groups
6. education
7. social status - 2How can money influence power?1. big businesses can use it to make campaign contributions and sway political candidates
2. it defines individuals' social class - 3how does race and ethnicity influence social power?behaviors of the dominant white population are less likely to be defined and enforced than those of hispanics and blacks
- 4How does gender influence social power?men dominate over women politically, economically, historically, religiously, occupationally, culturally and interpersonally
- 5How does age influence social power?People under 30 and over 65 have less respect, influence, attention, and command
- 6How does education influence power?Well educated professionals have the ability to speak as experts, to organize moral entrepreneurial campaigns, to advocate for their positions, and to argue from a legitimate base of knowledge.
- 7How does social status influence power?It is generated through the prestige, tradition, and respectability associated with various positions in society.
- 8Higher-status groups in society are less likely tobe perceived as deviant whether they actively work to fight the label or not.
- 9America's first real drug lawSan Francisco's anti-opium den ordinance of 1875
- 10What was the campaign for the San Francisco anti-opium den ordinance?a campaign that focused almost exclusively on what was called the "Mongolian Vice" of opium smoking by Chinese immigrants (and white "fellow travelers") in dens.
- 11The US now has more people in prison than any industrialized nation in the world - about half of them fordrug offenses, the majority of whom are racial minorities
- 12Recipe for drug scares and repressive drug laws1. a kernel of truth
2. media magnification
3. Politico-Moral Entrepreneurs
4. professional interest groups
5. historical context of conflict
6. linking a form of drug use to a "dangerous class"
7. scapegoating a drug for a wide array of public problems - 13the recurring character of pharmacy-phobia in US history suggeststhat there is something about our culture which makes citizens more vulnerable to anti-drug crusaders' attempts to demonize drugs.
- 14temperance cultures ten to arise only whenindustrial capitalism unfolds upon a cultural terrain deeply imbued with the Protestant ethic
- 15Drug scares continue to occur in American society in part becausepeople must constantly manage the contradiction between a Temperance culture that insists on self-control and a mass consumption culture which renders self-control continuously problematic
- 16deviance creation involvespolitical competition in which moral entrepreneurs originate moral crusades aimed at generating reform
- 17abstinence and bodily purity arethe cornerstones of the nonsmoker's purported moral superiority
- 18Early educative efforts against smoking weresuccessful in decreasing cigarette consumption because even smokers opposed cigarettes and had a repentant attitude
- 19—
Información
- Descripción
- Module 3 study guide
- Creado por
- aramon1982 · jul 2015
- Actualizado
- 25 oct 2016
- Visitas
- 63
- Etiquetas
- Valoración