SOCI 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neoliberalism, Masturbation, The Scarlet Letter
24 Oct 2016
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Review: moral breach (known as a hegemonic discourse) versus a good moral panic, changing media and moral panics, final review. Hegemony: a dominant position where certain groups hold certain ideas and certain norms and they function to maintain to keep power over one group or another. Individual responsibility is the single hegemonic norm informing contemporary social reactions. Moral panics are self-defenses against irresponsible conduct of others. Norms are neither singular nor exclusively reductive: example norms of caring, helping, kindness. When we conceptualize norms as exclusively reductive (bad), we foster normative biases. Of the woman who was publicly shamed for peeing in public after publicly drinking the history of shaming as social control. Public shaming is abuse to the body whereas surveillance is more mental and is more or less supposed to serve more like a sense of rehab. What kills the problems of the world is handling them with kindness, compassion, and empathy.
