Deviant behavior - exam 3

elements of a moral panic

concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality, and volatility.

concern

talk, emotion, hate crimes, backlash crimes, media coverage

hostility

us vs them

consensus

wide agreement that the threat is real and that significant action is needed to address it.

disproportion

exaggeration, fabrication, stories of harm

volatility

the panics are short lived and come as quickly as they leave

moral panic

someone getting really scared, and someone coming and saying “i can make you feel safe”

fear

is necessary, happens before reasoning kicks in, can be socially constructed

practice of discernment

what are real fears? what are not?

relies on cultivating trust

trusting nothing, high fear ←—————————————→ trusting everything, low fear

post structuralism

language and discourse have no separation, no real truth only truths that individuals or cultures happen believe

epistemes

knowledge categories

Foucault cared about:

• specialists who created technical knowledge

• epistemes

• discourse - collections of linguistic tools, habits and descriptions

how does knowledge work?

through language, creates order of things

explain knowledge/power

• those who control language have power

• since truth is relative each knowledge category is only one small truth competing against others

what does knowedge/power have to do with deviance

epistemes of psych, sowk, soc, crim define what is “normal” and that’s what gives them power (to judge) and values often deviant (to be judged)

normal vs abnormal

• normal is the absence of abnormal

• people with expertise decide what is abnormal

why does foucault say is responsible for the change in punishment (ex: drawing and quartering to timetables)

he says changes in knowledge happen because power changes

• the king can’t watch you like cameras and police can today so he has to scare people with punishment

• doesn’t make sense in this time to try and figure out what’s in peoples head like today

• judges care about criminals souls and mind which is why we have specialists testify

what does an evaluation do

tell you if you are normal or abnormal

mechanisms of discipline are everywhere, give an example

taking an online quiz and taking it seriously = self judging/disciplining

alienation

making a product all the time and having no control over where it goes and never seeing the end product therefore being separated from the creative process

what makes capitalism possible

mass production

what does marx mean by “the extent of my money is the extent of my power”

• the amount of money i have is who i am, because we have no creativity anymore

• if you have enough money, it can change who you are (ex: plastic surgery)

capitalism

you can buy anything you need to make you feel enough

marx says money gives you what

power

• we come steps closer to holding money higher than friends, family, etc.

what happens when you use money

you become alienated from yourself

what happens when you sacrifice your creativity

you are alienating yourself from yourself (ex: ai, makeup, plastic surgery, etc.)