There are many big fat cats in this world. I am one of them.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling

Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition

Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2

Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 1. 2. 3. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society

What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer

Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 4. 5. 6. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases

o o Naming

Columbine & Newtown OJ & Casey Anthony

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism

Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing

Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media

o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners

Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 7. 8. 9. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped

o o o o o o o

Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization

P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students)

2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 22. 23. 24. 25. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making

26. 27. 28.

Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 10. 11. 12. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking

o o o o o

Road rage Huffing Flash mobs Cyberbullying Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up?

Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker

Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition Grounds are usually assertions of fact 13. Typifying example 14. Naming

15. Statistic Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy

o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences.

The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking

Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 16. 17. 18. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem

o o

o o o o o o o o

Obesity rates Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates college women raped Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims

A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems

43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49.

Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 19. 20. 21. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does

in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance? Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex

o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato).

o Rhetoric

These are experts.

Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 22. 23. 24. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists

o Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling

Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition

Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2

Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 25. 26. 27. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society

What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer

Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 28. 29. 30. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases

o o Naming

Columbine & Newtown OJ & Casey Anthony

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism

Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing

Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media

o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners

Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 31. 32. 33. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped

o o o o o o o

Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization

P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students)

2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 78. 79. 80. 81. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making

82. 83. 84.

Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 34. 35. 36. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking

o o o o o

Road rage Huffing Flash mobs Cyberbullying Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up?

Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker

Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition Grounds are usually assertions of fact 37. Typifying example 38. Naming

39. Statistic Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy

o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences.

The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. Claimsmaking Media coverage Public reaction Policy making Social problems work Policy outcomes Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking

Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 40. 41. 42. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem

o o

o o o o o o o o

Obesity rates Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates college women raped Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims

A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems

99. Claimsmaking 100. Media coverage 101. Public reaction 102. Policy making 103. Social problems work 104. Policy outcomes 105. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 43. 44. 45. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does

in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance? Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex

o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato).

o Rhetoric

These are experts.

Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 106. Claimsmaking 107. Media coverage 108. Public reaction 109. Policy making 110. Social problems work 111. Policy outcomes 112. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 46. 47. 48. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists

o Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling

Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition

Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 113. Claimsmaking 114. Media coverage 115. Public reaction 116. Policy making 117. Social problems work 118. Policy outcomes 119. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2

Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 49. 50. 51. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society

What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer

Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 120. Claimsmaking 121. Media coverage 122. Public reaction 123. Policy making 124. Social problems work 125. Policy outcomes 126. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 52. 53. 54. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases

o o Naming

Columbine & Newtown OJ & Casey Anthony

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism

Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing

Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media

o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 127. Claimsmaking 128. Media coverage 129. Public reaction 130. Policy making 131. Social problems work 132. Policy outcomes 133. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners

Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 55. 56. 57. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped

o o o o o o o

Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization

P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students)

2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 134. Claimsmaking 135. Media coverage 136. Public reaction 137. Policy making

138. Social problems work 139. Policy outcomes 140. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 58. 59. 60. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking

o o o o o

Road rage Huffing Flash mobs Cyberbullying Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up?

Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker

Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 141. Claimsmaking 142. Media coverage 143. Public reaction 144. Policy making 145. Social problems work 146. Policy outcomes 147. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition Grounds are usually assertions of fact 61. Typifying example 62. Naming

63. Statistic Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy

o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences.

The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 148. Claimsmaking 149. Media coverage 150. Public reaction 151. Policy making 152. Social problems work 153. Policy outcomes 154. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking

Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 64. 65. 66. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem

o o

o o o o o o o o

Obesity rates Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates college women raped Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims

A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems

155. Claimsmaking 156. Media coverage 157. Public reaction 158. Policy making 159. Social problems work 160. Policy outcomes 161. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 67. 68. 69. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does

in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance? Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex

o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato).

o Rhetoric

These are experts.

Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 162. Claimsmaking 163. Media coverage 164. Public reaction 165. Policy making 166. Social problems work 167. Policy outcomes 168. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 70. 71. 72. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists

o Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling

Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition

Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 169. Claimsmaking 170. Media coverage 171. Public reaction 172. Policy making 173. Social problems work 174. Policy outcomes 175. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2

Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 73. 74. 75. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society

What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer

Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 176. Claimsmaking 177. Media coverage 178. Public reaction 179. Policy making 180. Social problems work 181. Policy outcomes 182. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 76. 77. 78. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases

o o Naming

Columbine & Newtown OJ & Casey Anthony

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism

Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing

Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media

o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 183. Claimsmaking 184. Media coverage 185. Public reaction 186. Policy making 187. Social problems work 188. Policy outcomes 189. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners

Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 79. 80. 81. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped

o o o o o o o

Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization

P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students)

2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 190. Claimsmaking 191. Media coverage 192. Public reaction 193. Policy making

194. Social problems work 195. Policy outcomes 196. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 82. 83. 84. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking

o o o o o

Road rage Huffing Flash mobs Cyberbullying Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up?

Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker

Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 197. Claimsmaking 198. Media coverage 199. Public reaction 200. Policy making 201. Social problems work 202. Policy outcomes 203. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition Grounds are usually assertions of fact 85. Typifying example 86. Naming

87. Statistic Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy

o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences.

The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 204. Claimsmaking 205. Media coverage 206. Public reaction 207. Policy making 208. Social problems work 209. Policy outcomes 210. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking

Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 88. 89. 90. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem

o o

o o o o o o o o

Obesity rates Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates college women raped Superbowl and domestic violence 1 in 4 go to bed hungry Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year Suicide increases around Christmas OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% McCarthys list of communists

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims

A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems

211. Claimsmaking 212. Media coverage 213. Public reaction 214. Policy making 215. Social problems work 216. Policy outcomes 217. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 91. 92. 93. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does

in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance? Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex

o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato).

o Rhetoric

These are experts.

Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 218. Claimsmaking 219. Media coverage 220. Public reaction 221. Policy making 222. Social problems work 223. Policy outcomes 224. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 94. 95. 96. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists

o Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling

Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition

Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 225. Claimsmaking 226. Media coverage 227. Public reaction 228. Policy making 229. Social problems work 230. Policy outcomes 231. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2

Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition 97. 98. 99. Grounds are usually assertions of fact Typifying example Naming Statistic

Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases o Columbine & Newtown o OJ & Casey Anthony

Naming Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Undersecretary of Labor in the Johnson Administration, lifelong democratic senator representing New York The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965) Leading public-intellectual figure in the Neo-conservative movement o liberal mugged by reality

Durkheim and Functionalism Is it possible for society to eliminate crime?

Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown, but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousness. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Would you want to live in a society w/o deviance?

Provocative Questions Is criminality normal or pathological Is the justice system interested in o Eliminating Crime? o Managing Crime? What purpose does punishment serve? o Erickson Deviant persons can be said to supply needed services to society

What determines the normal level of crime?

Adaptation I: Altruistic One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Girl Interrupted The ascendancy of the Labeling perspective/societal-reaction o Overburdened system o Discovery of tranquilizers o Deinstitutionalization P.S. Failure to deliver community MH care and criminalization of mental illness Given the results, can this truly be considered altruistic?

Adaptation II: Opportunistic Nuclear family is unraveling Produces negative outcomes o Educational attainment o Criminal lifestyles Remove the stigma of growing up in a broken home and illegitimacy o Define as alternative family structure as a lifestyle choice o Does this eliminate the problem though? Who wins? Bureaucrats. o There is good money to be made out of bad schools. o Example: Resistance to negative income tax

Adaptation III: Normalizing Per Kai Erickson, we engage in denial Reaction to Valentines Day Massacre V. what happened every weekend in DC, LA, Chicago Depictions of sex and violence in media (reaction to reluctance to fight/kill in Vietnam) Softening stance on pre-marital sex o Glorification of pimpin No longer a law enforcement but a public health issue o Mental illness

Defining Deviancy Up? Moynihan was half right New areas of deviance are being discovered o Political incorrectness o Child abuse corporal punishment o Smoking o Cyber bullying Arguably, these problems are being over-reported as a result of hypersensitivity

CHAPTER 1
Problems w/ Objectivist Claims A social problem is a condition that undermines the wel being of some or all members of a society that is usually the matter of public controversy 1. Conditions that might be deemed as harmful arent always identified as social problems (too many students) 2. Disagreement over why a problem is a problem (childhood obesity) 3. Any definition that attempts to capture the expanse of all harm is vague and pointless What is harm Is this a relativist argument? Are there no absolute wrongs?

Solution: Subjectivist Oriented Definition Social problems are defined by the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievance and claims with respect to some putative conditions. If men define situations as real they are real in their consequences. The study for SP should focus not on conditions, but on claims about conditions Bests perspective is one of social process and social construction

Resources Money Manpower (infrastructure) Access to media o Mainstream Media o New media, like blogs Academia Think tanks (Brookings, AEI, Center for American Progress, Cato). o These are experts.

Rhetoric Pro-choice v. a child and (prolife vs. anti-abortion) Illegal alien vs. undocumented worker Global warming v. climate change Sex slavery and human trafficking Enhanced interrogation v. torture Sweatshops, fair trade, free trade disadvantaged (poor) Terrorism v. man-caused disaster Cop/Law Enforcement Officer/Peace Officer & Guard/Correctional Officer

Prohibitions on the R word and Thats gay Limit on how much language can alter fundamentals of the problem (Sokals Hoax)

Outline of the Book: The Natural History of Social Problems 232. Claimsmaking 233. Media coverage 234. Public reaction 235. Policy making 236. Social problems work 237. Policy outcomes 238. Begin again at #1 There is a great deal of feedback between these stages

CHAPTER 2
Rhetoric of Claims (p. 30) 3 Parts to Claimsmaking Grounds (diagnostic frame): harming the morality of white people, splitting the nation, power of states problem (slaves running away to free states, southern states able to reclaim) Warrants (motivational frame): violation of human rights/Christian principles, hypocritical to American Constitution Conclusions (prognostic frame): Emancipate slaves, containment (i.e. stop Westward expansion), buy out slave owners Evolution & Opposition o Majority southern states claim right of contract, equal right sof statehood and right of property violated by the federal government o Federal government goal not to expand slavery Rconstruction/Carpetbagging/Birth of KKK and Jim Crow

Grounds for Establishing a Troubling Condition Grounds are usually assertions of fact 100. Typifying example 101. Naming 102. Statistic Typifying example Paradox: these are rarely typical Usually these are chosen to illustrate the seriousness of the problem These tend to be, extreme, dramatic, disturbing, and memorable cases

o o Naming

Columbine & Newtown OJ & Casey Anthony

Oftentimes this is a case of old wine in new bottle Its an attempt to brand the problem Examples: o Human trafficking o Road rage o Huffing o Flash mobs o Cyberbullying o Etc

Statistics This is a number bigger the better that accounts for the scope of the problem o Obesity rates o Projections: Whites becoming minority Autism growth Extinction rates o college women raped o Superbowl and domestic violence o 1 in 4 go to bed hungry o Average consumer eating 8 spiders a year o Suicide increases around Christmas o OWS pointing to disparate consumption of 1% o McCarthys list of communists o