SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Moral Panic, Substance Abuse
18 Mar 2013
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Reinarman - the social construction of drug scares. Several major drug scares, anti-drug crusades involving a moral panic in society. Alcohol: temperance movement to prohibition; primarily led by middle-class, protestant, white americans who felt threatened by the working-class, catholic immigrants from. Anti-opium den laws of san francisco in 1875 directed against chinese immigrants. Anti-marijuana laws of great depression directed at mexican americans and later con- nected to drop-out, hippie counterculture that was corrupting morality of the youth. Link a form of drug-use to a dangerous class . Scapegoating a drug for a variety of social problems. Moral entrepreneurs: campaigning, awareness, moral conversion, moral panic. Moral entrepreneurs: campaigning: moral entrepreneurs: those who construct moral meanings and associate them with particular acts or conditions by drawing on power and resources of: institutions. Deviance-making process has two facets rule-creating - politicians, teachers, parents rule-enforcing - police, judges, parents, ras.
