SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Drugstore Cowboy, Binge Drinking, Moral Panic
5 Mar 2013
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Anti-opium den laws of san fran in 1875 directed against chinese immigrants. Anti-marijuana laws of great depression directed at mexican americans and later connected to drop-out, hippie counterculture that was corrupting morality of the youth seven elements to drug scares: a kernel of truth, media magnification, politico-moral entrepreneurs. A) moral entrepreneurs: those who construct moral meanings and associate them with particular acts or conditions by drawing on power and resources of: institutions. B) deviance-making: this process has two facets: C) rule-creating may be done by persons acting alone or in groups individuals: reagan just say no = michael moore for documentaries about big business and violence: groups: madd, group against smoking pollution. D) moral entrepreneurs manufacture public morality through a multi-stage process beginning first with the generation of awareness of a problem: claims making - second hand smoking, testimonials. People draw various testimonials for professionals in the field (like doctors, scientists, etc. ) Soc 2070 march 4th, 2013 - lecture.
