Morality

Morality and Taste in Media Content

Tensions and contradictions abound in claims about media content and its relationship to popular taste and public morality. Media, especially mainstream media, reinforce prevailing norms of taste and morality by catering to them, but they also legitimize new and different standards of good and bad by circulating provocative and unorthodox material. Media coverage of scandals

Legislation of Morality

In The Division of Labor in Society ([1893] 1984), Emile Durkheim advanced the idea that the distinctive sociological feature of crime is society’s reaction to it. Durkheim was writing at a time when Lombroso’s view on the heritability of criminality dominated scientific and popular opinion. Science sought the etiology of crime in the biology of

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