Tim Clydesdale
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110653
- eISBN:
- 9780226110677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110677.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter discusses the narrowed perspectives on larger political, economic, and social matters as a general and possibly generational phenomenon among teens. It then shifts to the broader ...
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This chapter discusses the narrowed perspectives on larger political, economic, and social matters as a general and possibly generational phenomenon among teens. It then shifts to the broader implications not only of teens' disengagement but also of the project's findings as a whole. Many researchers and educators have made youth's disengagement from political and civic life a prominent concern for over a decade. Their work identifies growing cynicism about American political life as a root cause, which is exacerbated by mass media framing of political news. Thus, the book's argument about the impact of popular American moral culture on youth disengagement is hardly novel. What is novel is that the book specifies the identity lockbox as the mechanism of narrowed perspectives. It proposes that school rampages affected teens' perspectives on the world more than September 11, and argues that distinct forms of teen religiosity sustain or challenge youth disengagement.Less
This chapter discusses the narrowed perspectives on larger political, economic, and social matters as a general and possibly generational phenomenon among teens. It then shifts to the broader implications not only of teens' disengagement but also of the project's findings as a whole. Many researchers and educators have made youth's disengagement from political and civic life a prominent concern for over a decade. Their work identifies growing cynicism about American political life as a root cause, which is exacerbated by mass media framing of political news. Thus, the book's argument about the impact of popular American moral culture on youth disengagement is hardly novel. What is novel is that the book specifies the identity lockbox as the mechanism of narrowed perspectives. It proposes that school rampages affected teens' perspectives on the world more than September 11, and argues that distinct forms of teen religiosity sustain or challenge youth disengagement.
Richard Kraut
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199844463
- eISBN:
- 9780199919550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844463.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter focuses on Moore's conception of goodness. It discusses how Moore was not the first to assert or assume the existence of absolute goodness. Nor was he the last. The concept of absolute ...
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This chapter focuses on Moore's conception of goodness. It discusses how Moore was not the first to assert or assume the existence of absolute goodness. Nor was he the last. The concept of absolute or impersonal value—“intrinsic value,” as it is often called—continues to be employed in much contemporary Anglo-American moral philosophy.Less
This chapter focuses on Moore's conception of goodness. It discusses how Moore was not the first to assert or assume the existence of absolute goodness. Nor was he the last. The concept of absolute or impersonal value—“intrinsic value,” as it is often called—continues to be employed in much contemporary Anglo-American moral philosophy.
Robert F. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732078
- eISBN:
- 9781604732177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732078.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter traces the business history of Major League Baseball (MLB), showing it to be both a positive complement and a negative contradiction to its role as a sport. The chapter tackles both the ...
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This chapter traces the business history of Major League Baseball (MLB), showing it to be both a positive complement and a negative contradiction to its role as a sport. The chapter tackles both the marketing side (consumption) and the production side of the business (labor/player) of MLB. It discusses, for example, the monopoly status that enabled MLB teams to control their labor until the 1970s through a “reserve clause” and to “own” their local markets continuously through territorial exclusivity. One aspect that plays a major role in MLB’s success is the way in which it balances its commercial and cultural elements. However, the long term effect of securing early market dominance and having legal monopoly status is that MLB’s business progression has been hampered. This chapter thus also looks at the myths purported by baseball, namely how it was linked to American moral values even during its early history, and how it is the exploitation of these values that has enabled baseball to maintain its significance in popular culture.Less
This chapter traces the business history of Major League Baseball (MLB), showing it to be both a positive complement and a negative contradiction to its role as a sport. The chapter tackles both the marketing side (consumption) and the production side of the business (labor/player) of MLB. It discusses, for example, the monopoly status that enabled MLB teams to control their labor until the 1970s through a “reserve clause” and to “own” their local markets continuously through territorial exclusivity. One aspect that plays a major role in MLB’s success is the way in which it balances its commercial and cultural elements. However, the long term effect of securing early market dominance and having legal monopoly status is that MLB’s business progression has been hampered. This chapter thus also looks at the myths purported by baseball, namely how it was linked to American moral values even during its early history, and how it is the exploitation of these values that has enabled baseball to maintain its significance in popular culture.
Jennifer Graber
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834572
- eISBN:
- 9781469603339
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877838_graber
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, this book explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and ...
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Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, this book explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, the author shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. The author argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.Less
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, this book explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, the author shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. The author argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.
Russell Crandall
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780300240344
- eISBN:
- 9780300255874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300240344.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter describes how America was in “full fury” over drugs with the alleged crack epidemic when George H. W. Bush took office on January 20, 1989. It talks about how Bush took to network ...
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This chapter describes how America was in “full fury” over drugs with the alleged crack epidemic when George H. W. Bush took office on January 20, 1989. It talks about how Bush took to network television to warn the American public of the national emergency of drugs, using a bag of crack that the Drug Enforcement Administration had managed to purchase near the White House as a prop. It also refers to “drug czar” William Bennett, who echoed Progressive-era reformers in framing the question about substance use in terms of American moral identity and contended that drugs represented a crisis of national character. The chapter cites the late 1980s and early 1990s as the period in which the United States most forcefully brought the drug war to source countries, aiming to cease the operation of poppy, coca, and cannabis fields in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico. It elaborates Bush's support in taking military action in other countries to interrupt drug production.Less
This chapter describes how America was in “full fury” over drugs with the alleged crack epidemic when George H. W. Bush took office on January 20, 1989. It talks about how Bush took to network television to warn the American public of the national emergency of drugs, using a bag of crack that the Drug Enforcement Administration had managed to purchase near the White House as a prop. It also refers to “drug czar” William Bennett, who echoed Progressive-era reformers in framing the question about substance use in terms of American moral identity and contended that drugs represented a crisis of national character. The chapter cites the late 1980s and early 1990s as the period in which the United States most forcefully brought the drug war to source countries, aiming to cease the operation of poppy, coca, and cannabis fields in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico. It elaborates Bush's support in taking military action in other countries to interrupt drug production.
Julie Miller
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501751486
- eISBN:
- 9781501751509
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501751486.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
This chapter introduces Amelia Norman, a twenty-five-year-old woman that was born in New Jersey and known as a servant, seamstress, and sometime prostitute. It recounts how Amelia failed to kill ...
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This chapter introduces Amelia Norman, a twenty-five-year-old woman that was born in New Jersey and known as a servant, seamstress, and sometime prostitute. It recounts how Amelia failed to kill thirty-one-year-old Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant and her lover in the spring of 1841 during the depression that followed the economic collapse known as the Panic of 1837. It also describes Amelia's trial, which attracted the excited attention of the penny press, particularly Bennett's Herald, which thrived on sensation. The chapter explores what attracted the attention of the press, the public, and coterie of influential supporters to the would-be murderess. It mentions the American Female Moral Reform Society as one of Amelia's supporters, which had been working since the 1830s to criminalize “seduction.”Less
This chapter introduces Amelia Norman, a twenty-five-year-old woman that was born in New Jersey and known as a servant, seamstress, and sometime prostitute. It recounts how Amelia failed to kill thirty-one-year-old Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant and her lover in the spring of 1841 during the depression that followed the economic collapse known as the Panic of 1837. It also describes Amelia's trial, which attracted the excited attention of the penny press, particularly Bennett's Herald, which thrived on sensation. The chapter explores what attracted the attention of the press, the public, and coterie of influential supporters to the would-be murderess. It mentions the American Female Moral Reform Society as one of Amelia's supporters, which had been working since the 1830s to criminalize “seduction.”
