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creating deviance: scenarios of stigmatization in postmodern media culture
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The authors examines the social construction of deviance in contemporary mediated society and presents basic orienting questions which link poststructuralist cultural studies with concerns of interactionist labeling, and suggests the scenario as a strategy for critiquing meaning-generation.Abstract:
This paper examines the social construction of deviance in contemporary mediated society. First, it presents basic orienting questions which link poststructuralist cultural studies with concerns of interactionist labeling. These questions are a general mapping for the study of stigmatized meaning-generation. Second, it discusses the relationship between Mills's (1959) sociological imagination and Denzin's (1989a; 1989b) twin conceptions of interpretive interactionism and interpretive biography as a suitable context for meaning creation. Lived experience and self are overlapping textual productions. Third, the concept of scenario for use in describing the process of deviance-labeling is presented. The layers of the process include the deviant event, media reconstruction, and the stigma movie. Concluding, the paper suggests the scenario as a strategy for critiquing meaning-generation. Conceptions of deviance and conformity emerge as intertwined biographical and sociocultural narratives linked to the stigma ...read more
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