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Moral Indignation and the Media: An Analysis of the NVALA
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Gusfield's theory of moral reform as a mode of status politics is explored in the context of an analysis of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) protest against BBC television in particular as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Analyses of moral indignation have seen it as generated by infractions of the conscience collective or by repressed envy or prurience. Such explanations seem of limited relevance to various contemporary moral crusades. Joseph Gusfield's theory of moral reform as a mode of status politics is explored in the context of an analysis of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. Gusfield argues that assimilative reform which seeks to convert the deviant is replaced by coercive reform which seeks to constrain his behaviour by means of legislation when the supporters of a dominant morality find themselves increasingly abandoned by respectable groups and institutions. The sources of shifts in values away from the protestant ethic' values of an entrepreneurial middle class are located in a range of social and economic changes. The focus of NVALA's `protest against BBC television in particular is seen as developing from the spread of television as a domestic necessity and the shift in its ideological content...read more
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