SOCI 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lexisnexis, Google Scholar, Rape Culture
24 Oct 2016
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Social problems framing: horror, fear, panic, characteristics of problems. Diversity of claims: hierarchy of credibility: audiences, hierarchy of credibility: claims-makers, the social problems game, the social problems work and the social problems industry. Condition-based approach (realist: emphasizing the condition, example: rodney king case where 4 white police officers brutality beat up a black man for no wrong doing, example: kevin carter photo of child starving and he did not help. Activities-based approach (definitional: focus on the activities that claims-makers engage in to get the audience members interested and believing. Malcolm spector and john kitsuse"s definitional (radical constructionist) perspective. Steve woolgar and dorothy pawluch"s ontological gerrymandering. Social structures, like a society, represents a wholes. Things that can make up these wholes are religion, education, judicial system, the family, and more. Internal and external threats can put the organism at risk. Example of internal: threats to the family.
