Sexual Harassment
A contemporary stigma contest
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Sexual Harassment
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A contemporary stigma contest |
This film clip made available on a fair use basis for students of Prof. Wood's Introduction to Sociology course only
Discussion Questions
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the general point the video is making about the nature of deviance and the
existence of stigma contests?
(2) In the wake of the Clarence Thomas hearings, many women's activists said that the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee simply "didn't get it." What did they mean by this? Would you say that Congress--and American society generally--"gets it" today? (3) Why does the video link sexual harassment to smoking, animal rights, and abortion? What do these seemingly very different topics have in common? Can you think of others to add to the list? (4) Despite
increased awareness about the problem of sexual harassment, why is it
proving difficult to reach a societal consensus on its definition? |