Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nancy Reagan, Preppy, Moral Panic

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2259
• Professor: Lauren Barr

Document Summary

Missed the first part of class - missed slides 1-5. Sociologists recognize that established rules and norms are socially created, not just morally decided or individually imposed. That is, deviance lies not just in the behaviour itself, but in the social responses of groups to behaviours by others. Other theories ask: why do people act in deviant ways? . Manufacture public morality social awareness ; moral conversion. Some of the reasons these moral entrepreneurs create this rule is for altruistic reasons - greater good mentality: then there are cases where they create the rules or labels for selfish reasons. In his mind, as soon as you establish a norm there"s an outsider. So it is a moral entrepreneurs by itself, and it"s a tool used by moral entrepreneurs. Whose perspectives are missing: not printing certain stories, denying the full story, denying freedom of speech, refusing to print information, censorship is always about the greater people.