 Wherever rules are created and applied, we should be alive to the possible presence of an enterprising individual or group. Their activities can properly be called moral enterprise, for what they are enterprising about is the creation of a new fragment...  Drugs and Politics - Page 64edited by - 1977 - 331 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Nachman Ben-Yehuda - 1990 - 362 pages
...concept of a symbolic crusade and on Becker's (1963) characterization of a moral enterprise, which is: "the creation of a new fragment of the moral constitution of society" (p. 145). Hence, while the study of moral panics has remained within the sociology of deviance, the... | |
 | Philip Jenkins - 294 pages
...the role of one particular individual in the formulation of American narcotics policy on the 1930s: Wherever rules are created and applied we should be...constitution of society, its code of right and wrong. (Becker 1963:145) This is usually known as moral entrepreneur theory. A related view of interest group... | |
 | Ross Coomber - 1998 - 304 pages
...by structural features such as poverty, unemployment, etc. 9. Becker (1963) saw moral enterprise as 'the creation of a new fragment of the moral constitution of society.' 10. My reservations about this are partly due to the fact that one of the most prolific proponents... | |
 | Doug Mann - 2002 - 322 pages
...whistle" on a group that is violating an existing rule. Their enterprise, if successful, results in the creation of a new fragment of the "moral constitution of society" (Becker 1973: 122, 128, 145). Becker's transactional approach focuses on the intentions of each of... | |
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