scholarly journals When finance met security: Back to the War on Drugs and the problem of dirty money

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Amicelle
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The U.S

When and how did the laundering of ‘dirty’ money become an object of public concern, debate, and ultimately policy at the intersection of finance and security? This article sheds light on the social construction of money laundering as a public problem in the context of the U.S. War on Drugs during the 1970s and 1980s. By doing so, the article also stresses the heuristic value of questioning the finance-security nexus through an analytics of public problems. Its aims are to: (1) avoid interdisciplinary debates around the finance-security nexus becoming trapped in a zero-sum game between the ‘securitization of finance’ and the ‘financialization of security’; and (2) understand better the emergence, re-configuration, and internal tensions of social spaces at the interface of finance and security.

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border on YouTube

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Lybecker ◽  
Mark K. McBeth ◽  
Maria A. Husmann ◽  
Nicholas Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

The Authenticity Paradox: Why the Returns to Authenticity on Audience Appeal Decrease in Popularity and Iconicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 014920632095041
Author(s):  
J. Cameron Verhaal ◽  
Stanislav D. Dobrev
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
Audience Appeal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

A great deal of research has argued for authenticity as a key firm-level attribute and source of competitive advantage. But we know very little about the boundary conditions related to organizational authenticity. In order to address this, we develop a theory of the social construction of authenticity, how it affects the appeal of a producer’s offerings, and how the market success of these offerings affects the returns to authenticity. We propose that there are two mechanisms, in addition to authenticity, that can drive audience appeal: popularity and iconicity. But increases in both popularity and iconicity also challenge some of the underlying tenets of what the audience considers authentic, namely, intrinsic motivation and the pursuit of social, rather than economic, value. The authenticity paradox, then, is that even as the appeal of authentic offerings increases, their popularity and iconicity diminish the returns to authenticity. We find support for these ideas in the context of the U.S. market for craft beer and discuss the implications of our theory for authenticity research and for the broader market and social dynamics in craft industries.

scholarly journals Guns don’t kill people…: good guys and the legitimization of gun violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concealed Carry ◽  
Legitimate Violence ◽  
The U.S

AbstractBuilding on literatures that examine why firearms are appealing and to whom and employing Weber’s concept of “legitimate violence”, this paper utilizes an online concealed carry forum to critically analyze how firearm proliferation is rationalized in the U.S. The analysis focuses on three specific examples of violence—the Parkland, Florida, and Philando Castile shootings, and stories of children who find guns and shoot themselves and/or others. This work is a critical examination of the social construction of “legitimate violence” that deconstructs the discourses embedded in the “pro-gun” notion that the answer to gun violence is more guns.

Metamorphoses: Clashing Symbols in the Social Construction of Drugs

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Manderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Drug Legislation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Imagery ◽  
Legislative Policy ◽  
The Aesthetic

In order to understand the nature and intensity of the debate over the reform of “drug” legislation, it is necessary to appreciate the aesthetic forces which influence attitudes to this question, and the symbolic meaning which is attached to the imagery of drugs. The “war on drugs” is a war about emotional imagery and contested symbols, and in particular about the idea of the boundary—a matter crucial to the metaphysics and social organization of Western society. At the same time, it will be argued, it is the failure to recognize that we are dealing with the symbolic realm which bedevils both drug users and legislative policy. The reification of symbols causes and perpetuates the very problems that are intended to be solved. In their fetishization of the objects of drug use, the law and the addict are far more alike than one might think.

Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level: Changes in the Social Consequences of the U.S. War on Drugs

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-164
Author(s):  
Eric L. Jensen ◽  
Clayton Mosher ◽  
Jurg Gerber ◽  
Kate Angulski
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Federal Programs ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Level Versus ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Fifteen years ago, Jensen, Gerber, and Mosher drew attention to the societal costs of the U.S. war on drugs. They argued that while criminologists had focused on the impact of this war on the U.S. criminal justice system, other impacts had been under-researched. Whereas some research along these lines has been done that we review here briefly, some of the “objective” conditions of the war on drugs have changed in the intervening years. The primary aim of the current article is to update these conditions. In brief, we have witnessed progress at the U.S. state level in terms of adverse social consequences of the war on drugs, but a significant recent regress at the federal level. Among others, there are significant new restrictions to various federal programs, often disproportionately so for members of racial minorities.

scholarly journals Children's Gender and Parents' Color Preferences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip N. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Color Preferences ◽  
Child Socialization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The U.S

Gender differences in color preferences have been found in adults and children, but they remain unexplained. This study asks whether the gendered social environment in adulthood affects parents’ color preferences. The analysis used the gender of children to represent one aspect of the gendered social environment. Because having male versus female children in the U.S. is generally randomly distributed, it provides something of a natural experiment, offering evidence about the social construction of gender in adulthood. The participants were 749 adults with children who responded to an online survey invitation, asking “What’s your favorite color?” Men were more likely to prefer blue, while women were more likely to prefer red, purple, and pink, consistent with long-standing U.S. patterns. The effect of having only sons was to widen the existing gender differences between men and women, increasing the odds that men prefer blue while reducing the odds that women do; and a marginally significant effect showed women having higher odds of preferring pink when they have sons only. The results suggest that, in addition to any genetic, biological or child-socialization effects shaping adults’ tendency to segregate their color preferences by gender, the gender context of adulthood matters as well.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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