SXST 1600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Leilani Muir, Informal Social Control, Social Darwinism

• School: York University
• Department: Sexuality Studies
• Course: SXST 1600
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

Document Summary

Keywords: moral regulation, degeneracy, social darwinism, eugenics, morbid heredity, sexy hygiene/ purity education, alberta sterilization act 1929, leilani muir. Morality and moral panic always about power to define normal. Deviants are not the act but also what society makes them out to be. The deviant makes people feel good when going against them for moral reasons fisher : morality = informal social control . Morality isn"t wrapped into law and physical laws in itself, they also occur outside of the law. Moral discourse police"s behavior to produce conformity. Normalization project is a product of morals and creating what society views as natural. State is always animated and legitimated by a particular moral ethos. State agencies attempt to create unitary norms. The state wants to create national identities by narrowing down what it means to be canadian etc. Eg canadians believe in these morals, etc, etc . Singular picture of canada morality sex/gender and sexuality have been key to moral regulation.