POLS 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Safety Canada, Substance Abuse, Computer And Network Surveillance

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Questions asked by actors who seek to influence policy process. How do we get ppl to think about our issues in ways that they"ll see them as problems that need to be fixed thru pub policies? (not just individual actions) Frames are organizing principles that are socially shared over time, that work to structure the social world. Attempt to structure how we think about things. Most ppl have a set of frames in their mind that is created by what they already see/know/make sense of things. Gay marriage: individual rights & equality vs. traditional values/views. Helps ppl think about an issue in a certain way, and exclude other possibilities/views. Define issue in way that"s favourable to a certain policy agenda. Simplify a complex issue by emphasizing 1 dimension over another. Create groups of actors in certain ways (social construction) Dominant frame of the poor (before 1960s) was more sympathetic than they are now.

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