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Flashcards by aramon1982, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by aramon1982
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| Question | Answer |
| Elements of social power | 1. money 2. race & ethnicity 3. gender 4. age 5. greater #s and organization can empower groups 6. education 7. social status |
| How can money influence power? | 1. big businesses can use it to make campaign contributions and sway political candidates 2. it defines individuals' social class |
| how does race and ethnicity influence social power? | behaviors of the dominant white population are less likely to be defined and enforced than those of hispanics and blacks |
| How does gender influence social power? | men dominate over women politically, economically, historically, religiously, occupationally, culturally and interpersonally |
| How does age influence social power? | People under 30 and over 65 have less respect, influence, attention, and command |
| How does education influence power? | Well educated professionals have the ability to speak as experts, to organize moral entrepreneurial campaigns, to advocate for their positions, and to argue from a legitimate base of knowledge. |
| How does social status influence power? | It is generated through the prestige, tradition, and respectability associated with various positions in society. |
| Higher-status groups in society are less likely to | be perceived as deviant whether they actively work to fight the label or not. |
| America's first real drug law | San Francisco's anti-opium den ordinance of 1875 |
| What was the campaign for the San Francisco anti-opium den ordinance? | a campaign that focused almost exclusively on what was called the "Mongolian Vice" of opium smoking by Chinese immigrants (and white "fellow travelers") in dens. |
| The US now has more people in prison than any industrialized nation in the world - about half of them for | drug offenses, the majority of whom are racial minorities |
| Recipe for drug scares and repressive drug laws | 1. a kernel of truth 2. media magnification 3. Politico-Moral Entrepreneurs 4. professional interest groups 5. historical context of conflict 6. linking a form of drug use to a "dangerous class" 7. scapegoating a drug for a wide array of public problems |
| the recurring character of pharmacy-phobia in US history suggests | that there is something about our culture which makes citizens more vulnerable to anti-drug crusaders' attempts to demonize drugs. |
| temperance cultures ten to arise only when | industrial capitalism unfolds upon a cultural terrain deeply imbued with the Protestant ethic |
| Drug scares continue to occur in American society in part because | people must constantly manage the contradiction between a Temperance culture that insists on self-control and a mass consumption culture which renders self-control continuously problematic |
| deviance creation involves | political competition in which moral entrepreneurs originate moral crusades aimed at generating reform |
| abstinence and bodily purity are | the cornerstones of the nonsmoker's purported moral superiority |
| Early educative efforts against smoking were | successful in decreasing cigarette consumption because even smokers opposed cigarettes and had a repentant attitude |
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