- Tytuł:
- Regulating Pornocomic Sales to Juveniles in Japan: Cycles and Path-Dependence of a Social Problem
- Autorzy:
- Akagawa, Manabu
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2107050.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015-04-30
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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Path-Dependence
Social Problems
Pornocomics
Youth Protection Ordinance
Tokyo - Opis:
- The purpose of this paper is to develop a new constructionist perspective on path-dependence of a social problem by examining the process of constructing issues regarding the revisions of the Tokyo Youth Protection Ordinance from December 2008 to July 2010. I start with pointing out that a social problem has a cycle of concern and a unique past and background, in a word, path-dependence. Once a social problem process has started down a track, the costs of reversal are very high. Through investigating the revision process between pro-regulation and anti-regulation groups compared with the previous arguments, I found three characteristics of arguments: the limited use of statistics, shared grounds, and shared warrants. I interpret the features as an unintended consequence of path-dependence of the pornocomic problem. This context limits the course of claims-making activities and affects the following controversy. I conclude that the concept of path-dependence offers a better understanding of how and why claims-making activities sometimes lose their diversity and are lopsided over time.
- Źródło:
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Qualitative Sociology Review; 2015, 11, 2; 62-73
1733-8077 - Pojawia się w:
- Qualitative Sociology Review
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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