Chapter 16: Blowing Smoke; Tuggle and Holmes

2 strategies of anti-smoking moral entrepreneurs

1. Assimilative reform

2. Coercive reform  

 3 Status Claims by Anti-Smoking Groups

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 , by Robert J. Durán

Systematic Suppression

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?