Chapter 16: Blowing
Smoke; Tuggle and Holmes
2 strategies of
anti-smoking moral entrepreneurs
1. Assimilative
reform
2. Coercive reform
3
Status Claims
1. Health Risks
2. Moral Superiority
3. Social Class
Independent Concept:
knowledge class
moral entrepreneur
status quo defender
Also important: the status conflicts between moral entrepreneurs, and how one group tried to boost their status and legitimacy (in the stratification hierarchy) by pushing the other group down. They did this by defining them and their smoking behavior as undesirable and deviant.
Chapter 17: Failure
to Launch: Jenkins
Five
features in the literature on moral panics:
1. Perception of threat
2. Expert diagnoses
3. Mass media stereotyping
4. Hysteria
5. Decline
Independent Concept:
Claims-makers
Chapter 18:
Legitimated Suppression: Inner-City Mexican-Americans and the Police
1. Legitimated Profiling
Legitimate vs. Non-Legitimate
Factors contributing to police stop and frisks
2. Interacting with Suspected Gang Members
3. Intelligence Gathering
4. Serious Forms of Police Misconduct
Conclusion:
Ecological Contamination
Minority Threat Hypothesis
Three Results of Anti-Gang Enforcement
Chapter 19:
Homophobia and Women’s Sport, by Blinde & Taub
5 Dimensions of Silence Surrounding Lesbianism in Women’s Sport
1. athletes’ difficulty in discussing lesbian topic
2. viewing lesbianism as a personal and irrelevant issue
3. disguising athletic identity to avoid lesbian label
4. team difficulty in addressing lesbian issue
5. administrative difficulty in addressing lesbian issue
3 Ways Athletes Internalized Societal Stereotypes
1. acceptance of lesbian stereotypes
2. acceptance of women’s sport team stereotypes
3. acceptance of negative images of lesbianism
Thought: why do some groups internalize negative social stereotypes about themselves while others do not?
How does the stigma of homosexuality affect women's actions?