SOCB51H3 Chapter Notes -Heterosexuality, Psychopathy, Mary Douglas
Document Summary
National security as moral regulation: making the normal and the deviant in the security. To this day closeted homosexuals can be denied security clearances with the argument that they have something to hide and therefore are vulnerable to blackmail and are a security risk. Mary douglas - shows how social and moral notions of purity pollution and taboo have often been built on the social relations of physiological reproduction and erotic practices. Ideas about separating, purifying demarcating and punishing transgressions have as their main function to impose system on an inherently untidy experience. This natural order depends on boundaries separating the normal from the ambiguous. Moral regulation broad range of social discourses institutions ideologies and practices. Eroticism and sexual activity key area for moral regulation often informing the moral regulation of seemingly non sexual activities. The historical and social process not only marginalizes the deviant homosexual on the social periphery it also places the normal heterosexual at the social centre.
