SOCI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cadency, Times Colonist, Sex Industry
15 Sep 2016
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The research relies on two sources of data. 1980 and 2004 in the victoria times colonist (425 articles). The authors examine how media contributes to the construction of stigma (which occurs when. Elements of labelling, separation, stereotyping, status loss and discrimination co-occur). Felt stigma can be experienced when the self in considered within dominant cultural scripts, and can be damaging even in the absence of observable instances of discrimination. Sex industry work was portrayed in the media as: vectors of contagion (moral or disease, an acute and serious social problem, outdoor work, strongly gendering and focusing mainly on women, men are seen as the client. Interviews were conducted of individuals in the sex industry. The majority (80%) of the sample identified as female; 18% of the sample identifies as male; and 2% identified as male-to-female transgendered. In greater victoria, during the time from of the study, 63% of households owned their own dwellings, but inly 3. 5% of the respondents did.
