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Flashcards by Paige Price, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Paige Price
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Moral entrepreneurs | individuals who draw on the power and resources of organizations, institutions, agencies, symbols, ideas, communication and audiences. There are two facets: rule creating and rule enforcing |
| Rule Creators | ensures that our society is supplied with a constant stock of deviance by defining the behavior of others as immoral. Includes politicians, crusading public figures, teachers, parents, school administrators and CEOs of business organizations |
| Rule Enforcers | Police, judges, courts, dormitory RAs, members of neighborhood associations, the Inter-Fraternity Council, and parents. |
| Claims-making | Claim-makers draw our attention to given issues by asserting "danger messages". |
| Moral Panic | arises when a threat to society is depicted, promoting terror and dread with its powerfully persuasive focus on folk devils. They are power struggles between various groups in society. |
| Social Power | factors that give certain groups in society to construct definitions of deviance and to apply those labels onto others. Money, Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Age, Greater numbers in organizations. |
| Recipe for drug scares and repressive drug laws. | 1. A Kernel of Truth 2. Media Magnification 3. Politico-Moral Entrepreneurs I 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 |
| Threat to Social Values | A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined. |
| Stereotypical Fashion | what is presented and stylized by the mass media |
| Reasons that might cause a social problem to abort before becoming a moral panic | 1. Lack of Technological Understanding 2. Comprehensive Offiical Control of an Issue |
| Ideal Panice | 1. Diversity of agencies and interest groups 2. The story must be comprehensible 3. Issue must be sufficiently overt & accessible 4. Panic should offer a narrative 5. The story should lend itself visual portrayal 6. Narrative must have an outcome 7. Narrative will have maximum impact |
| Gender, Race and Urban Policing | demographic variables, race, sex, and age to see the way people are treated differently by agents of social contorl. |
| Physically Intrusive | searches with numerous complaints about the police "trying to put they hands all in your mouth" |
| Limit their use of public space | young men believed police should be designated to neighborhood locations as crime hot spots |
| Prejudical | young black men believed officers viewed them as criminals because of their age, race, and location in the poor neighborhoods. |
| antagonist language | derogatory marks and racial epithets used by officers |
| Young women and Police | women's descriptions of police harassment differed from young men's. 1. Curfew 2. Treated as criminal suspect 3. Desire for protection from neighborhood dangers 4. Violence against women 5. Treated as suspects |
| Silence Surrounding Lesbianism in Women's Sport | Silence came from: 1. Athletes difficulty in disscusing lesbian topic 2. viewing lesbianism as a personal and irrelevant issue 3. Discussing athletic identity to avoid lesbian label 4. Team difficulty in addressing lesbian issue 5. Administrative difficulty in addressing lesbian issue. |
| Saints | children of good, stable, white, upper-middle class families. Active in school affairs and good pre-college students. Never officially arrested for vandalism, petty theft, truancy, and drinking. |
| Roughnecks | constantly in trouble with the police and the community, though their delinquency was about equal to the Saints |
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