The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada / / Mildred A. Schwartz, Raymond Tatalovich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Mildred A.,; Tatalovich, Raymond,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A. Schwartz and political scientist Raymond Tatalovich bring their disciplinary insights to the study of moral issues. Beginning with prohibition, Schwartz and Tatalovich trace the phases of its evolution from emergence, establishment, decline and resurgence, to resolution. Prohibition’s life history generates a series of hypotheses about how passage through each of the phases affected subsequent developments and how these were shaped by the political institutions and social character of the United States and Canada. Using the history of prohibition in North America as a point of reference, the authors move on to address the anticipated progression and possible resolution of six contemporary moral issues: abortion, capital punishment, gun control, marijuana, pornography, and same-sex relations. Schwartz and Tatalovich build a new theoretical approach by drawing on scholarship on agenda-setting, mass media, social movements, and social problems. The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts provides new insights into how moral conflicts develop and interact with their social and political environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Why Moral Conflicts Matter -- 2. The Example of Prohibition -- 3. Issue Portraits -- 4. The Context of Moral Conflicts -- 5. The Emergence of Moral Conflicts -- 6. Establishment -- 7. Continuity, Decline, Resurgence -- 8. The Resolution of Moral Conflicts -- 9. The Phases of Moral Conflicts -- Appendix 1: Coding Media Coverage of Moral Conflicts -- Appendix 2: Morality Policy Planks in Major Party Platforms, Canada and the United States -- Index