SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Opium Den, Moral Panic
30 Nov 2015
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Week 8: reinarman: the social construction of drug scares. Several major drug scares, anti-drug crusades involving a moral panic in society. *anti-opium den laws of san francisco 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. Politico-moral entrepreneurs: political elites to create or enforce rules against societal evil. Professional interest groups: can create and de ne what should be done about the evil (i. e churches, police, scientists, claim authority due to their special knowledge) Historical context of con ict: must be other things wrong at the same time. Link a form of drug-use to a dangerous class : i. e opium dens and chinese immigrants. Scapegoating a drug for a variety of social problems. Moral entrepreneurs: campaigning: moral entrepreneurs: those who construct moral meanings and associate them with particular acts or conditions by drawing on power and resources of:
