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Roth, Cortes Rodolfo. "Nothing to fear but fear itself? : A qualitative study of men’s and women’s fear of crime." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32709.
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The purpose of this study is to obtain a better understanding of what people fear might happen to them when being outside after dark. A lot of quantitative studies have been made on the subject of fear of crime to generalize and quantify people’s fears, but lacks any in-depth information about their fears and experiences. I have chosen to research about just that. Theories used are Doing gender and Ideal victims and I have interviewed 8 individuals about what they fear, why they fear it, where they think this fear comes from and other feeling and experiences associated with it. In my analysis we can see that there is a big difference in what individuals fear between men and women. The women in this study are more scared than the men to the point that they do not really venture outside after dark. Men on the other hand feel a bit more unsafe after dark, but never enough to avoid going outside. I also found that women feel shame over their pre-conceptions of men’s crime towards women. Men were mostly scared of assault and robbery while women are mostly scared of sexual assault, and their fears mostly derive from media and experiences people close to them have had.Syftet med denna studie är att få en bättre förståelse över var människor är rädda kan hända dem om de är ute när det är mörkt. Många kvantitativa studier har genomförts angående rädsla för brott för att kunna kvantifiera samt generalisera resultaten till en hel population. Detta resulterar i en förlust av djupet i individers rädslor kring att bli utsatta för brott. Jag har valt att forska om just det. Valda teorier är ”göra genus” och ”ideella offer” och jag har intervjuat 8 individer angående vad de är rädda för, varför de är rädda för det, vart de tror denna rädsla kommer ifrån samt andra känslor associerade med det. I min analys kan vi se att det finns en stor skillnad mellan vad män och kvinnorna i denna studie är rädda för. Kvinnorna var räddare än män till den punkten att de avstod från att gå ut under kvällar och nätter. Männen å andra sidan kände sig lite osäkrare när det var mörkt, men aldrig tillräckligt för att avstå från att gå ut. Jag fann även att kvinnor upplevde skam över deras fördomar mot mäns brott mot kvinnor. Män var främst rädda för misshandel och rån medan kvinnor var rädda för sexuella brott, och deras rädslor härstammade från media och erfarenheter individer nära dem hade upplevt.
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Kjerrman, Jonas. "Prediktion av social distansering via empati och rädsla : Predicting social distancing through empathy and fear." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-79268.
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Breed, C. Kathleen. "Fear, censure and crime : social aspects of modernity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272390.
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Doerksen, Mark D. "Fighting Fear with Fear: A Governmental Criminology of Peace Bonds." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24224.
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Peace bonds are a legal tool of governance dating back to 13th c. England. In Canada, a significant change in the application of peace bonds took place in the mid-1990s, shifting their purpose from governing minor disputes between individuals to allowing for persons who have not been charged with a crime to be governed as if they had. Given the legal test for a peace bond has always been the determination of ‘reasonable fear’, the advent of these ‘specialized’ peace bonds suggests that the object of reasonable fear has changed. Despite their lengthy history, peace bonds have limited coverage in academic literature, a weakness compounded by a predominant doctrinal approach based in a liberal framework. The central inquiry of this thesis moves beyond this predominant perspective of ‘peace bonds as crime prevention’ by developing a governmental criminology, which deepens our understanding of the role of specialized peace bond law in contemporary society. Specifically, governmental criminology takes a Foucaultian critical legal studies approach, which acknowledges legal pluralism and sets out the historical context required for analysis. Ultimately, by unearthing underlying social, economic, and political power relations it is possible to critique the accompanying modes of calculation of fear and risk, thus challenging the regimes of practices that make specialized peace bonds possible. Specialized peace bonds merely manage the consequences of a criminal justice system limited by social, political, and economic circumstances, in a broader biopolitical project of integrating risky populations.
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Barth, Eric. "Influence of Viewing Dramatic Television and Perceived Risk of Victimization on Crime-Specific Fear." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/332.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the predictability of the fear of property and personal crime in relation to viewing dramatic or violent television. The study was carried out using the viewpoint that the viewing of violence, which is symbolically communicated through the medium of television, does affect the fear of crime. A questionnaire was administered in the spring of 1998 to students of a mid-South regional university. The sample consisted of 619 undergraduate students. Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The results of this study suggest that watching violent television content influences the fear of personal crime. However, viewing this type of television seems to have a smaller impact on the fear of property crime.
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Ungetheim, Brandon. "High School Teachers' Perceptions of School-Related Violence: Effects on Fear of Victimization and Perceived Risk." TopSCHOLAR®, 2000. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/706.
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Using a sample of 204 high school teachers from nine different counties in Kentucky, this study examined the predictors of both teachers1 fear and perceived risk of victimization at school in an attempt to learn more about this adult population. The predictors that were analyzed on both fear and perceived risk of victimization are as follows: age, sex, school location (metropolitan/nonmetropolitan), victimization experience, indirect victimization experience, and perceived seriousness of school violence. Results indicate that, sex, school location, victimization experience, and perceived seriousness of school violence were all significant predictors of both teachers' fear and perceived risk of victimization. Females and those who had been previously victimized were more fearful and perceived a greater risk of victimization than did males and those teachers without previous victimizations. Results also indicated that nonmetropolitan teachers were both more fearful and perceived a greater risk of victimization than did metropolitan teachers. Neither indirect victimization experience nor age, cited by many studies as predictors of fear in adults, were found to predict either teachers' fear or perceived risk of victimization.
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CHAN, On Fung. "Fear of crime among older persons : an exploratory qualitative study in different environments in Hong Kong." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2008. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/soc_etd/8.
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Fear of crime among various groups has long been studied in Western societies. Many studies have concluded that older persons tend to exhibit higher levels of fear of crime than other age groups even though they are generally at a lower risk of being victims of crime. However, there have been relatively few studies on fear of crime and associated reasons amongst older persons in Asian cities and Chinese societies. Moreover, most existing studies have generally utilized quantitative methods to examine the possibly causal relationships between fear of crime and its underlying factors, and subjective evaluations by older people themselves of factors related to the fear of crime are very few. This study aimed to investigate factors related to fear of crime by exploring older persons’ perspectives on their living environments and their own situations.
A qualitative research design was used to explore how and why fear arises in spite of considerable objective evidence that older persons are at relatively low risk of falling victim of crime. The study employed eight focus group discussions (FGDs) and two individual interviews. To provide a rage of typical HK residential environment, participants were drawn from two main categories of housing (traditional village housing and purpose-built housing) and four different types of physical living environment in Hong Kong (a village, an island, old-town housing, and new towns).
Environmental factors, individual factors and moderators of fear of crime have been identified in this study. First, the qualitative findings suggest that environmental factors can be categorized as three dimensions, which include vulnerability (defect of the living environment), defensibility (level of protection that provided by the environment) and supportability (availability of social support that older persons can get when they are at risk). Vulnerability appears to be positive associated with fear of crime, but defensibility and supportability appear to be negatively associated with fear of crime. Second, the findings on individual factors enrich the Vulnerability model proposed by previous researchers, in which physical, psychological and behavioural weakness of older persons can be discussed. Third, moderators of fear of crime (e.g. people who have adjusted to a dangerous place by knowing the latest local crime event or figure.) which concentrate on the cognitive and behavioural adjustment among older persons, have been identified. Finally, policy recommendations for the welfare of older persons in Hong Kong are suggested based on the findings of the research.
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Moncure, Katherine Parker. "Inverted Quarantine: Individual Response to Collective Fear." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1465228298.
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Painter, Kathleen. "An evaluation of the impact of street lighting on crime, fear of crime and quality of life." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272156.
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Spence, Karen R. "Clarifying the Relationship Between Bullying and Fear of Victimization: The Contribution of Collective Efficacy." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3250.
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The rate of fear of victimization has declined in recent years but remains a prevalent problem among adolescents. Fear has been explained in past literature by three main theories: victimization theory, social integration theory, and social disorganization theory. However, the prediction of fear of victimization can be done more concisely by the contribution of collective efficacy, a concept that combines a community's feelings of social cohesion with a willingness to intervene for the common good. Using data collected from Philadelphia middle schools in 1993-1994, this study tested the direct and interacting effects of bullying and collective efficacy on fear of victimization with hierarchical linear modeling. The results indicated that bullying is positively related to fear of victimization, and collective efficacy is negatively related to fear of victimization. Contrary to the hypothesis, the moderating effect of collective efficacy on bullying and fear was not statistically significant. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.
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Terstad, Emelie, and Sjöberg Moa. "FoMo, oron för framtiden : En hermeneutisk studie om den subjetiva upplevelsen av fenomenet FoMo i relation till sociala aspekter." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-53283.
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Studien har utformats från intresset av ett relativt nytt och omtalat fenomen “fear of missing out”, benämnt FoMo. Direkt översatt betyder det rädslan att missa, vilket ofta beskrivs som ett psykologiskt fenomen. Studien har en hermeneutisk ansats och syftar till att förmedla en förståelse av FoMo i relation till sociala aspekter med en socialpsykologisk utgångspunkt. Urvalet består av tio intervjudeltagare i åldern 18–32 år med erfarenhet av upplevd FoMo. Deltagarna har intervjuats om sin upplevelse av FoMo, där de fått tala fritt om fenomenet. Studiens teoretiska referensram bygger på teorier om identitetsutveckling i relation till omvärlden och individens frihet att handla utifrån en kombination av existentialism och symbolisk interaktionism. Resultatet är en tolkning av insamlad data som utformats med stöd av förförståelse, tidigare forskning och den teoretiska referensramen. FoMo handlar om en oro för framtiden. Oron grundar sig i individuella faktorer som är betydande för identitetsutveckling men även sociala faktorer som gemenskap. Att missa en social händelse i sig är inte avgörande för upplevelsen av FoMo utan snarare rädslan för att missa de erfarenheter som händelsen kan leda till. De val vi ständigt måste ta i vardagen har stor betydelse för individen och kan vara avgörande för individens existens.
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Mergler, Ines. "Making Sense of the Migration-Fear Nexus: Culture of Fear and its Consequences for Political Discourse : A Political Critical Discourse Analysis of Hart aber fair in the German Migration Debate (2013-2017)." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-362499.
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Fear is a challenge for European democracies today that is discussed in the same breath as rising populism and anti-immigrant speech. However, it seems that fear has also become a defining principle for Western (post)modern society in many other areas of life. This observation has been framed by the term culture of fear and described by recognized sociologists like Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman and Frank Furedi. They argue that changing social conditions like individualisation and globalisation have altered Western society’s preoccupation with security, uncertainty and risk. In consequence, Bauman and Furedi talk about a fear that has become “free-floating” and “liquid”. This research project asks about the implications of such a culture of fear for society and takes a closer look at what has been described as politics of fear. By conducting a critical political discourse analysis of the political talk show hart aber fair, this paper aims at tracing politics of fear in the German discourse over migration during the “refugee crisis” (2015-2017). In a three-tiered approach, the investigation embarks by defining culture of fear and its social premises, followed by a discussion of politics of fear theories drawing upon such concepts as precaution, prevention and securitisation. Emerging from this discussion, both a “traditional” politics with fear and a (post)modern politics of uncertainty are identified. The subsequent analysis of a selected hart aber fair episode from the 5th September 2016 bases on Siegfried Jäger’s approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and examines the argumentation and interaction of the guests in the debate. The findings indicate that in addition to the use of fear as a political means for populist politicians, the narrative of the “fearful society” has on a whole permeated the German political discourse over migration. Hence, culture of fear offers a new perspective for the understanding of political discourse and the current developments in political practice.
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Edwards, Bradley. "Media: Effects on Attitudes toward Police and Fear of Criminal Victimization." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2048.
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This research investigated the effects of the media on attitudes toward police and fear of crime, while controlling for selected audience trait variables. A self-report questionnaire was administered to 351 students at East Tennessee State University. The survey consisted of demographic and audience trait variables. The survey also contained items that measured the respondants' media consumption. Respondents were asked, for example, which format they typically get news from (e.g., newspaper, television), how often they watch television, and how real they perceive crime related television to be. Multivariate analysis showed that demographic and audience trait variables explained more variance than did media-related variables.
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Logan, Laura S. "Fear of violence and street harassment: accountability at the intersections." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15949.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Dana M. Britton
Feminists and anti-violence activists are increasingly concerned about street harassment. Several scholars, journalists and activists have documented street harassment during the last two centuries, and the recent development of organizations such as Hollaback! and Stop Street Harassment, as well increased attention from mainstream and feminist press, suggests street harassment is a serious social problem worthy of empirical investigation. In this dissertation, I focus on street harassment, fear of violence, and processes of doing gender. I take an intersectional approach to understand the relationships between gender, race, and sexuality, street harassment, fear, and social control. Furthermore, I investigate how accountability to being recognizably female is linked to street harassment and fear of crime for lesbians and other queer women. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with thirty white and women of color lesbians and bisexuals, I explore street harassment experiences, perceptions of fear and risk, and strategies for staying safe from the perspectives of queer women in rural, suburban, and urban locations in the Midwest. I discuss several key findings. First, there are distinct links between “doing gender” and the types of harassment these women experience, as well as links between “doing gender “and the types of assault they fear. Second, race matters - institutional violence shapes the fears and safety strategies of the queer women of color in my sample, and white privilege affects women’s willingness to consider self-defense in response to their fears. Finally, responses to fear and street harassment are shaped by the incite/invite dilemma. The incite/invite dilemma describes the predicament women face during street harassment encounters when they try to avoid responses that might incite escalated violence while also avoiding responses that might be viewed as an invitation for more aggressive harassment. This study extends research on accountability and doing gender, street harassment, fear of rape, and the gender differential in fear of crime. There are several practical implications of these findings. Chief among them is the need for activists and scholars to be attentive to the ways in which racism and racial inequality shape street harassment for women of color. In addition, feminists who work to end street harassment should broaden their focus to include a host of other pressing issues that influence the severity of and risks connected to street harassment for members of queer communities and communities of color. There are also theoretical implications for the theory of doing gender. Knowledge about accountability to sex category remains incomplete. Findings suggest the need to further investigate processes of accountability to sex category, with particular attention to diverse arrangements of orientations to sex category, presumptions about sex category, race, and queer gender identities.
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Steventon, Graham John. "Crime, community, context & fear : influences on informal social control in an affluent English suburb." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36385/.
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Based on ethnographic research, involving observations, participant observation and in-depth interviews, this thesis explores the impact of crime and the influences on informal social control in an affluent, middle class suburb. The research focused on the interaction between estate design, the environment, social and community life, and fear of crime, and their effects on residents in the neighbourhood. Despite low recorded crime rates, crime was perceived to be a problem. This situation arose from a paradox of community dynamics which, on the one hand, increased fear of crime, but on the other, contained crime. Apart from small-scale and extremely localised solidarities, a socially fragmented community existed in which limited and loose-knit local social networks, strong desires for privacy, and atomisation prevailed. These factors, coupled with busy lifestyles and features of the suburban environment, resulted in isolation and enhanced fear of crime. However, fear arose more from concerns about crime in wider society together with general anxieties rooted in change in late-modernity, than actual risk of victimisation. Crime control was rarely based on conm-iunity action, instead being individualistic and reliant on sophisticated target hardening. Low crime, therefore, was less attributable to the pursuits of 'active citizens' envisaged by community crime prevention policies and more to structural processes of affluence, status and property ownership which created an exclusive and exclusionary community of vested interest, common identity and shared values. As a study of affluent suburban life, the research contributes to the community studies tradition. However, the main importance of the research is its implications for community crime prevention. By highlighting the complex and contextual nature of informal social control and the influences which impact on it, the necessity to tailor crime prevention more to local needs is emphasised.
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Antonsson, Erik. "The Context of Fear of Crime : The Importance of Quality of Government in Europe." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158115.
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Fear of crime is a social problem on its own, partly independent of crime as actual crime does not fully explain as to why some individuals are more afraid for crime than others. Structuralist perspectives have offered some explanations, largely neglecting the potential importance of institutional perspectives. This thesis aims to study fear of crime from an institutional perspective using the theoretical construct quality of government which seeks to offer a way to measure well-functioning institutions. It is assumed that quality of government has an impact in different ways; through trust and victimisation. To study these research questions, data were drawn from two sources, the European Social Survey (ESS) and Quality of Government EU Regional Data. The sample contained 85,794 individuals nested in 152 regions which were situated in 18 European countries. The empirical analysis consisted of random intercept multilevel modelling. It was found that the quality of government was correlated with fear of crime, where higher levels of the former tended to result in lower levels in the latter. Trust were found to mediate this correlation whereas victimisation interacted with quality of government.
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Goff, Lorrie Anne. "How schools create the violence they fear a case study of an alternative learning center 1999-2001 /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1109101-145819/restricted/goffl120401a.pdf.
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Murphy, Simon Mark. "Assessing curriculum based AIDS educational needs and the relative effectiveness of humour and fear messages in AIDS education videos : an examination of age, gender and geographical effects using quantitative and qualitative methods." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310645.
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Westerlund, Mikael. "Rädsla i det offentliga rummet : En undersökning av samband mellan media och rädsla för överfallsvåldtäkt." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-15397.
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Sammanfattning Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att analysera och diskutera hur rädsla utvecklas i samband med överfallsvåldtäkter, och undersöka samband mellan media och kvinnors rädsla. Syftet har också varit att relatera rädslans betydelse i förhållande till jämställdhet. Den övergripande problemfrågan har varit: - Finns det samband mellan medias nyhetsförmedling och kvinnors rädsla för överfallsvåldtäkt? Följande undersökningsfrågor har använts: - Hur ser forskningen på problemet med kvinnors rädsla för brott och våldtäkt? - På vilket sätt kan nyhetsklippen i Nerikes Allehanda ha påverkat utvecklingen av rädsla för överfallsvåldtäkter i Örebro? Undersökningen har gjorts i två delar. Först genom en undersökning av vad tidigare forskning kommit fram till om kvinnors rädsla för brott och våldtäkt. Sedan genom en textanalys av nyhetsklipp i Nerikes Allehanda, och hur dessa kan ha påverkat rädsla för överfallsvåldtäkter i Örebro. Tidsrummet sträcker sig från september 2009 till september 2010. Som utgångspunkt för textanalysen har Göran Bergström och Kristina Boréus metodbok Textens mening och makt använts. Jag har utgått från en teori om att medierna sätter dagordningen för vilka frågor som blir viktiga. Genomgående har analyserna genomförts från ett genusperspektiv, som utgår från att män och kvinnor har olika positioner i förhållande till våldtäkt. Ett tema om kvinnors tillgång till det offentliga rummet har en central plats i uppsatsen. För att relatera resultaten till ett vidare jämställdhetsperspektiv har Susan Brownmillers teori, om våldtäkt som uttryck för makt och social kontroll, använts. Slutsatsen är att det verkar finnas samband mellan medias nyhetsförmedling och kvinnors rädsla för överfallsvåldtäkt. Nerikes Allehandas nyhetsklipp är utformade på ett sätt som kan verka uppskrämmande på många kvinnor. Det gäller t.ex. signalerande nyheter, som är utformade på ett sätt som varnar kvinnor att de kan bli serievåldtäktsmannens nästa offer. Det sker också genom varningar från polisen, medierade genom media. Samspelet mellan Nerikes Allehandas kriminaljournalistik och polisen som huvudsaklig källa till nyhetsartikarna, har troligen haft en central roll i genererandet av en genuskodad rädsla, utan att varken polis eller Nerikes Allehanda haft något syfte att skrämma kvinnor. Ett sätt varigenom rädslan kunnat föras vidare är genom ett kulturellt narrativ, som skapas genom nyhetsklippen.Abstract The aim of this essay has been to analyze and discuss how fear develops in the context of rape attacks and investigate the relationship between media and women's fear. The aim has been to relate the importance of fear to gender equality. The overall question has been: - Is there a connection between media coverage and women's fear of sexual assault? The research issues that have been used: - How does research regard questions concerning women's fear of crime and rape? - How can newspaper articles in Nerikes Allehanda have influenced the development of fear of rape attacks in Örebro? The study was conducted in two parts. The first part was carried out as an examination of what previous research has concluded on women’s fear of crime and rape. Then through a textual analysis of newspaper articles in Nerikes Allehanda and how these may have affected the fear of rape attacks in Örebro. The time span is September 2009 to September 2010. Göran Bergström and Kristina Boréus method book Textens mening och makt was used as a basis for the text analysis. My point of departure has been a theory that the media set the agenda for what issues are important. The analysis was conducted from a gender perspective that assumes that men and women have different positions in relation to rape. A theme about women's access to public space has a central place in the essay. In order to relate the results to a wider gender equality perspective, Susan Brownmiller's theory of rape as an expression of power and social control has been used. The conclusion is that news media and women's fear of assault and rape seems to be linked. Newspaper articles in Nerikes Allehanda are designed in a way that may seem frightening to many women. This applies, for instance, to signaling news stories designed to warn women that they may become the next victim of a serial rapist. It also applies to warnings from the police, mediated through the media. The interaction between the crime coverage of Nerikes Allehanda and the police, as the main source of the news stories, probably played a central role in the generation of a gender-coded fear, without neither the police nor Nerikes Allehanda having any intent to scare women. A way that fear seems to have been passed on is through the creation of a cultural narrative that is created by the design of news articles.
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Larsson, Daniel. "Exposure to crime as a consequence of poverty : five investigations about relative deprivation, poverty and exposure to crime." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-832.
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Carmichael, Aaron M. "The War Amongst our Homes: Society's Attitude towards the Increased Militarization of American Policing." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1464183102.
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Merrill, Monica. "Defensive Behaviors on College Campuses: The Role of Fear, Perceived Risk, Perceived Motivation and Past Exposure to Sexual Victimization." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1404217382.
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Kendrick, Kristen Ashley. "Lock your windows: women’s responses to serial rape in a college town." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/376.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
L. Susan Williams
Studies on fear of crime demonstrate that fear of rape controls women’s lives by altering emotions and behavior, though how women construct rape discourse through social networks has not been examined. Further, studies tend to dismiss stranger rape because of its rarity compared to acquaintance rape, but this study argues that research must begin where women are. This study looks to women’s voices to articulate how they talk about fear of rape; specifically, it examines responses to a serial rapist at work in a college town. Framed by feminist methodology, this study establishes the influence of fear on women’s lives and the role of women’s social networks in disseminating information, constructing strategies, and changing behavior as it relates to a local serial rapist. The study utilizes a multi-method approach to quantify levels of fear in the community and to document qualitatively women’s responses to knowledge about the serial rapist. Two surveys, content analysis of local newspapers, and interviews support this research. In particular, group interviews conducted in two environments – campus face-to-face groups and online virtual groups – provide opportunities for young women to voice concerns and report behavioral changes related to the serial rapes. The research demonstrates that women are concerned about insufficient information from formal sources and want more accurate reporting. Women depend heavily on informal networks for information, but it is often incomplete and/or inaccurate and may actually intensify fear. As documented in earlier research, women focus on stranger rape to the neglect of the more common acquaintance rape and tend to strategize in individual terms rather than recognize structural issues. A major finding of this research is that young women actually perceive a change in their own identity as they try to manage fear of rape. However, women’s social networks and, in particular, the increasingly popular online networks, provide a forum from which to try out strategies, build collective discourse, and, in turn, develop greater group consciousness among young women. From the experiences of women in this study, several policy implications are offered for managing fear, including education about the more likely threat of acquaintance rape.
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Huffman, Debra Kay 1952. "Fear in the landscape: Characteristics of the designed environment as they relate to the perceived and actual safety of women from assault and rape." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278604.
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Research has shown that women perceive, use, and experience space differently than men, in part, because of gender issues and fear of victimization for violent crimes. Recent research has focused on the built environment, violence against women, and the social context of a university. The research study described here investigated women's perception of and actual safety from assault and rape on The University of Arizona campus. Sites perceived as safe and unsafe were identified from responses of 100 women students and administrators. Police reports of 132 campus assaults of women were used to identify sites of past rapes and assaults. Two outdoor sites were assessed in a preliminary study of two environmental audit methods. Findings from this study indicated that respondents perceived the campus as being very safe during the day but unsafe at night. Sites of previous assaults on women overlapped little with the areas women associated with fear.
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Williams, Seth Alan. "Perceptions of the Police and Fear of Crime: The Role of Neighborhood Social Capital." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1440351447.
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Wikberg, Matilda. "Stoppa 5G! Risk, rädsla och misstro online : En multimodal diskursanalys av den 5G-kritiska rörelsen på Facebook." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-85706.
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Den moderna informations- och kommunikationsteknologin har inneburit genomgripande förändringar av vårt sätt att leva och kommunicera men nya tekniker har också mötts av skepticism och väckt kontroverser. Ett aktuellt exempel är motståndet mot den femte generationens mobilnät, 5G. Trots att det inom den etablerade vetenskapen saknas stöd för att 5G skulle utgöra en hälsofara har en växande antistrålningsrörelse hävdat att tekniken för med sig nya och ökade strålningsrisker. I den här uppsatsen utforskas den svenska 5G-kritiska rörelse som vuxit sig stor på Facebook. Syftet är att undersöka hur risk, rädsla och misstro i relation till mobilnätet 5G konstrueras diskursivt inom den 5G-kritiska rörelsen, med utgångspunkt i två av de största och mest aktiva 5G-kritiska grupperna på plattformen. Uppsatsen utgår från en socialkonstruktionistisk ansats och fokuserar tre analytiska teman: risk, rädsla och misstro. Dessa teman ligger även till grund för det teoretiska ramverket som utgår från Ulrich Becks (2012) risksamhälle och Frank Furedis (2006) teori om rädslokulturer. Studien bygger på en netnografisk insamlingsmetod där såväl språkligt som visuellt innehåll har samlats in och analyserats i en multimodal diskursanalys. Analysresultaten visar att risk, rädsla och misstro konstrueras via ”versioner av världen” där riskerna med 5G framställs som verkliga, akuta och hotande och där makthavande aktörer porträtteras som opålitliga, korrupta och inkompetenta. Dessa diskursiva mönster är såväl språkliga som visuella; de sker inte bara genom meningsskapande ordval, narrativ och tecken utan också genom användning av så kallade internetmem och emojis. Studiens resultat visar också att sociologiska perspektiv på risk, rädsla och misstro kan fördjupa förståelsen för dessa konstruktioner och ge perspektiv på hur rörelsen förhåller sig till det omgivande samhället. Analysen tyder på att de definitionsstrider och olika rationalitetsanspråk som Beck (2012) har beskrivit som typiska för risksamhället också präglar konstruktionen av riskerna med 5G. Furedis (2006) rädsloteman fördjupar vidare förståelsen för hur risker tillskrivs ett hotfullt innehåll genom sociala och kulturella processer. Dessutom visar analysen på att misstro gentemot etablerad expertis kan leda till framväxten just den alternativa expertis som såväl Beck som Furedi har beskrivit. Samtidigt tycks social organisering online också innebära vissa nya förutsättningar som har potential att förflytta traditionella maktpositioner som finns beskrivna i teorin.Modern information and communications technology has brought about radical changes in the way we live and communicate. However, new technologies have also sparked scepticism and created controversies. A recent example is the opposition to the fifth-generation mobile network technology, 5G. According to the established science community, there is no evidence that 5G would pose a health hazard. Still, a growing anti-radiation movement has claimed that the technology will cause new and increased radiation risks. This essay explores the Swedish 5G critical movement that has grown large on Facebook. The aim is to examine how risk, fear, and mistrust in relation to the mobile network 5G are constructed discursively within the 5G critical movement, based on two of the largest and most active 5G critical groups on the platform. Drawing on a social constructionist approach, the study focuses on three analytical themes: risk, fear, and mistrust. These themes also form the basis of the theoretical framework, consisting of perspectives from Ulrich Beck’s (2012) risk society and Frank Furedi’s (2006) theory on culture of fear. The study is based on a netnographic collection method where both linguistic and visual data have been collected and analysed in a multimodal discourse analysis. The result of the analysis shows that risk, fear, and mistrust are constructed via "versions of the world" in which the risks of 5G are presented as real, acute, and threatening and actors in power are portrayed as unreliable, corrupt, and incompetent. These discursive patterns are both linguistic and visual; they take place not only through meaningful choices of words, narratives, and signs but also by using so-called internet memes and emojis. The results also show that sociological perspectives on risk, fear, and mistrust can deepen the understanding of these constructions and provide perspectives on how the movement relates to the surrounding society. The analysis indicates that the definitional struggles and different claims of rationality that Beck (2012) has described as typical for the risk society also characterize the construction of risks related to 5G. Furedi’s (2006) themes of fear also deepens the understanding of how risks are assigned a threatening content through social and cultural processes. Moreover, the analysis reveals that distrust of established expertise can lead to the emergence of an alternative expertise, which has been described by both Beck and Furedi. However, the results also suggest that social organization online entails some new conditions that have the potential to shift traditional positions of power described in theory.
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Carinena, Ana. "Freedom to Vote in Kenya: Effects of Perceived Corruption, Levels of Political Trust, and Fear of Political Violence and Intimidation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/303.
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To understand attitudes about voting in Kenya, this study examines Kenyan voters’ feelings of freedom to vote according to their own will and without pressure. More specifically it seeks to determine the extent to which these feelings are affected by 1) perception of corruption, 2) levels of trust in the government, 3) fear of political violence and intimidation, and 4) ethnic identity. Rational choice theory and an insideroutsider perspective are applied to examine the issue from a theoretical framework. Previous research conducted in relation to voting behavior and perception of corruption, trust in government, and ethnicity, among other things, are considered. This study uses secondary data collected by the Afrobarometer in 2008, and bivaraite and multivariatea nalysis are employed.
Logistic regression models are used to examine the extent to which certain variables explain feelings of freedom to vote according to personal preference. The results from the logistic regression analyses show that both trust in government and fear of being subject to political violence and intimidation affect Kenyan voters’ feelings of freedom to vote according to their personal preference. These results support two hypotheses. First, Kenyan voters will feel freer to vote according to their own preference as their levels of trust in the government increase. Second, Kenyan voters’ feelings of freedom to vote will be negatively associated with fear of being subject to political violence and intimidation.
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Baker, Joseph O., Samuel L. Perry, and Andrew L. Whitehead. "Forthcoming. Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7802.
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Some of the strongest predictors of voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election were Christian nationalism and antipathy toward Muslims and immigrants. We examine the interrelated influence of these three factors on Americans’ intentions to vote for Trump in 2020. Consistent with previous research, Christian nationalism and Islamophobia remained strong and significant predictors of intention to vote for Trump; however, the effect of xenophobia was stronger. Further, xenophobia and Islamophobia significantly and substantially mediated the effects of Christian nationalism. Consequently, though Christian nationalism remains theoretically and empirically distinct as a cultural framework, its influence on intending to vote for Trump in 2020 is intimately connected to fears about ethnoracial outsiders. In the penultimate year before Trump’s reelection campaign, the strongest predictors of supporting Trump, in order of magnitude, were political party, xenophobia, identifying as African American (negative), political ideology, Christian nationalism, and Islamophobia.
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Gresham, Mitchell. "Who Owns A Handgun?: An Analysis of the Correlates of Handgun Ownership in Young Adulthood." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu147881245017819.
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Weiss, Pierre Olivier. "Les usagers des campus universitaires marseillais face à la délinquance et aux incivilités." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0587.
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La question de la sécurité et du sentiment d’insécurité à Marseille se résume trop souvent à la problématique des « cités » et à l’image des trafics de drogue et des règlements de compte qu’ils évoquent. Ces sujets sont certes réels et importants, mais ils ne doivent pas occulter les problèmes de « délinquance » et d’« incivilités » plus classiques et autrement plus nombreux qui se posent dans toutes les grandes villes, de multiples manières. Les années 1980, sous l’influence des recherches anglo-saxonnes, marquent justement un tournant majeur puisque, conscient des limites de la statistique administrative, on commence à mesurer ces phénomènes sociaux du point de vue de la victime. Alors que des enquêtes en population sont réalisées en France depuis plusieurs années, aucune d’entre elles ne s’intéresse aux usagers des campus universitaires quand bien même les effectifs d’étudiants explosent dans le dernier quart du 20e siècle. En effet, aujourd’hui, l’université représente un passage obligé pour une part importante de la jeunesse.Comment, les campus universitaires, des espaces sociaux similaires au premier regard, laissent-ils apparaître des différences en termes de victimation et de sentiment d’insécurité ? Quelle est le volume des victimations recensées et qui sont les victimes ? Peut-on comprendre l’origine des peurs éventuelles des étudiants et des personnels de l’université ? En quoi l’organisation de la sécurité, les problèmes de délinquance locale ainsi que les représentations sociales forment-ils un ensemble de phénomènes qui s’articulent et s’alimentent ?The question of security and fear of crime in Marseille is all too often limited to the problem of "cités", the image of drug trafficking and the settling of accounts they evoke. These topics are certainly real and important, but they should not overshadow the more classic and numerous "delinquency" and "incivility" problems that arise in many ways, in all major cities. The 1980s, under the influence of Anglo-Saxon research, mark a turning point. Aware of the limits of administrative statistics, we began to measure these types of social phenomena from the point of view of the victim. While population surveys have been carried out in France for several years, none of them are interested in members of university campuses even though the student population exploded in the last quarter of the 20th century. Indeed, today, the university represents a necessary passage for a substantial part of the youth.How do social spaces, which are similar at first glance, reveal differences in terms of victimization and fear of crime? What is the intensity of victimization and who are the victims? Can we understand the origin of the fears of students and university staff? In what way are the security organizations, the problems of local delinquency as well as the social representations a set of phenomena that articulate and feed each other?This thesis, which is a part of the sociology of delinquency and urban sociology fields, does not resolutely lean towards spectacular crime incidents absent from the campus landscape, but rather, towards everyday life problems of members of 3 main Marseilles’ campuses
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Fretwell, Michelle Dawn. "Citizen or Criminal: The Influence of Online News Media on White College Students’ Criminal Stereotyping of Latinx." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619010998523239.
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Murray, Teisha. "“Comin From Where I’m From:” Exploring Inner-City Youth’s Perception of Their Neighborhood." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305644738.
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Chan, Chio Weng. "The impact of personal differences on the perception of public safety among citizens in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2580065.
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BECK, VICTORIA SIMPSON. "ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION ON EMOTIONAL, COGNITIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL REACTIONS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1028820743.
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Lailo, Nelly. "Trygghet i offentliga rum : En genusfallstudie om trygghetsupplevelsen i Marieberg och dess sociala hinder för män och kvinnor." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78925.
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Trygghetsupplevelsen i offentliga rum har blivit en alltmer central fråga inom mediedebatten om staden på grund av nyhetsupplysningarna av terrordåd, organiserad brottslighet och mord. Otäcka incidenter förhöjer människors rädsla och gör att offentliga rum kopplas samman med otrygghetskänslor. Debatten övergår sakta men säkert från brottsbekämpning till invecklade relationer som synnerligen präglas av en jämställdhetsfråga mellan män och kvinnor till följd av stadsplaneringens ojämna maktförhållanden som har skapat skilda förutsättningar för könen. De bakomliggande drivkrafterna till studien är vikten av trygghetskänslan i offentliga rum eftersom det alstrar potential för sociala relationer, kunskapsutbyte och utgör en betydelsefull funktion i samhället. Därmed syftar studien till att undersöka genusskillnaden i upplevelsen av trygghet i Mariebergs offentliga rum på kvällstid och vilka sociala hinder det skapar för män och kvinnor. Metoden som använts i studien är av en kvantitativ ansats som samlade 86 respondenter genom en enkätundersökning. Metoden mentala kartor användes som metafor för respondenternas upplevelser av platser. Det visuella materialet och observationsmetoden användes därpå i platsinventeringen i syfte att igenkänna komponenter i den fysiska miljön som ger vetenskapliga belägg för eller emot studiens teorier som avhandlar forskning om trygghet i offentliga rum med fokus på kön och genus. Resultatet visar främst att män känner sig i högre grad trygga i jämförelse med kvinnor. Kvinnor känner sig likaså trygga men är mer bekymrade och oroliga över att utsättas för brott till följd av både fysiska och sociala faktorer i det offentliga rummet, vilket begränsar deras rörelsemönster i en aning större utsträckning än män.The security experience in public spaces has become a central issue in the media debate about the city. Incidents such as terrorist acts, organized crime and murder increase people's fear and cause public spaces to be linked to feelings of insecurity. The media debate is shifting from law enforcement to complex relationships, which are marked by an equality issue between men and women. The uneven power relations of urban planning that have created different conditions for the sexes. Security in public spaces is an important function in society. Thus, the study aims to investigate the gender difference in the experience of security in Marieberg's public space in the evening and what social obstacles and opportunities it creates for men and women. The method used in the study is of a quantitative approach that collected 86 respondents through a questionnaire survey. The mental maps method was used as a metaphor for respondents' experiences of places. The visual material and the observational method were then used in the site investment to recognize components of the physical environment that provide scientific evidence for or against the study's theories that discusses research on security in public spaces with a focus on gender. The results mainly show that men feel more secure in comparison to women. Women are more concerned about being exposed to crime as a result of both physical and social factors in the public space, which limits their movement patterns slightly more than men.
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Formoso, Climent. "Miedo social en las sociedades de la comunicación. Dominación por aspersión, opinión pública y vidas de miedo capilar." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404294.
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Las sociedades de la comunicación están permanentemente enervadas por temores sociales. El paso del paradigma del conflicto social a la sociedad del riesgo ha multiplicado fenómenos sociales e intelecciones mediadas por el miedo. No obstante, la Sociología le ha hecho poco caso al miedo y toda la literatura disponible es, básicamente, de carácter ensayístico. En este trabajo, tras explorar cuantas hipótesis y deudas conceptuales se utilizan en los discursos sociales para explicar al miedo, se realizan una serie de definiciones y se establecen las dimensiones esenciales para entender y explicar al miedo contemporánea en términos exclusivamente sociológicos. Así, se define al miedo social como un dispositivo sociopolítico de carácter comunicativo- cognitivo y se caracteriza su estática elemental: el poder, los media, el mundo de la vida cotidiana y los procesos de opinión pública. Para visibilizar y caracterizar a cada una de esas dimensiones se recurre a cuatro metáforas: la dominación por aspersión que visibiliza al poder global de carácter comunicativo-enunciativo; el miedo capilar o las vivencias del miedo social de proximidad; la comunicación thriller –concepto tomado de Gil Calvo- para dar cuenta de las variables endógenas a los procesos comunicativos de masas; y el espectro comunicativo-designativo miedo-gel que regula diagnósticos, alarmas comunicativas y climas de opinión.
Se prueba el modelo teórico en el análisis de la opinión pública publicada española relativa a la crisis económica entre los años 2008-2015. Mediante análisis cualitativo (análisis crítico del discurso, analítica de narrativas y de Storytelling) se utilizan las técnicas del priming y el framing (utilizadas en el estudio de la agenda setting) para visibilizar procesos económicos, políticos y de alineación del modelo mediático de masas. A partir del estudio de la evolución de priorizaciones y encuadres informativos relativos al diagnóstico y políticas económicas a seguir, se observa cómo la activación del miedo social prepara cambios y toma de decisiones políticas que afectan al modelo político y
social del país. La segmentación de fenómenos sociales relativos a inseguridades a partir del paradigma del riesgo en tres narrativas (de inseguridades de efectos indeseados, inseguridades de tipo securitario e inseguridades de tipo económico y político) permite observar cómo al “normal miedo social” del ascenso social del riesgo, se recurre asiduamente en este periodo al miedo social para generar consensos mediáticos en materia económica. Por otra parte, también se constata cómo el recurso a la narrativa securitaria es utilizado por el poder aspersor para mantener enmarcados y relatos hegemónicos, y a la vez, se usa para desactivar la contestación social. En este sentido, se constata una cierta complementariedad entre narrativas de inseguridad. Se concluye con una clasificación de temores sociales desde criterios culturalistas sobre los que se aplican criterios sociopolíticos para pronosticar un incremento de presencia de miedos sociales a medida que se intensifiquen los procesos de individualización y de globalización.Communication societies are constantly enervated by social fears. The shift from the paradigm of social conflict to the society of risk has multiplied social phenomena and intellections mediated by fear. However, Sociology has paid little attention to fear and all available literature is basically essayistic. In this paper, after exploring the different that conceptual hypotheses and debts are used in social discourses to explain fear, a series of definitions are made and the essential dimensions for understanding and explaining contemporary fear in exclusively sociological terms are established. Thus, social fear is defined as a socio-political device of a communicative-cognitive character and its elemental statics are characterized: power, the media, the world of daily life and the processes of public opinion. To visualize and characterize each of these dimensions, four metaphors are used: the domination by sprinkling that visibilizes the global power of communicative-enunciative character; The capillary fear or the experiences of the social fear of proximity; The thriller communication - a concept taken from Gil Calvo - to account for endogenous variables in mass communicative processes; And the communicative- designative spectrum fear-gel that regulates diagnoses, communicative alarms and opinion climates.
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Steele, Jennifer L. "Adolescent Substance Use and General Social Strain Theory: The Influence of Race/Ethnic-Related Strains and Protective Factors." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1307735817.
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Larsson, Stefan. "Between Daring and Deliberating : 3G as a Sustainability Issue in Swedish Spatial Planning." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Department of Spatial Planning, School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2008. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/3ab1da63bc53db9ac12573fe0051a222?OpenDocument.
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Pires, Carlos Rogério Guedes. "O debate público sobre segurança no estado do Rio Grande do Sul : uma aproximação desde a ética do discurso." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/8276.
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O presente trabalho é uma tentativa de aplicação da ética do discurso (HABERMAS e APEL) ao debate público sobre segurança no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, no período 2001/2002. Entende o debate como formação discursiva da opinião e da vontade políticas e o interpreta em termos de racionalidade comunicativa. O debate transcorreu em um contexto de aumento da criminalidade e problematização das noções de crime e punição (YOUNG), alimentando um sentimento de insegurança da opinião pública capaz de influenciar programas legislativos e políticas públicas. A partir da análise da imprensa escrita buscou-se avaliar a qualidade do debate a partir de condições ideais de justificação, pressupostos do discurso ou situação ideal de fala (HABERMAS), notadamente em relação ao critério de inclusão de temas e participantes. Concluiu-se pelo caráter excludente do debate, seja em relação a determinados temas, seja em relação a determinados grupos; e que a exclusão de temas e grupos deu origem a movimentos de protesto que podem ser interpretados como uma luta por reconhecimento (TAYLOR, HONNETH e FRASER).The present work is an attempt of application of the ethics of the speech (HABERMAS and APEL) to the public debate on security in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in period 2001/2002. It understands the debate as discursive formation of the opinion and of the will politics and interprets it in terms of communicative reason. The debate has occurred in a context of increase of crime and crisis of the crime and punishment knowledge (YOUNG), feeding a fear of crime in the public opinion capable to influence legislative programs and public policy. From the analysis of the written press one searched to evaluate the quality of the debate from ideal conditions of justification or ideal situation of speaks (HABERMAS), specifically in relation to the criterion of inclusion of subjects and participants. It was concluded for the exclusive character of the debate, either in relation of determined subjects, or in relation of determined groups; and that the exclusion of subjects and groups gave rise to protest movements that can be interpreted as a fight for recognition (TAYLOR, HONNETH and FRASER).
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Li, Zhong-Wen. "College Students and Credit Card Use in the Twenty-first Century." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1299878749.
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Junior, Clodomir Cordeiro de Matos. "ViolÃncia, Medo e Cidadania: ExperiÃncias Urbanas em Fortaleza." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2008. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3678.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorO presente trabalho pretende ser uma contribuiÃÃo aos estudos que se dedicam a compreensÃo das formas de experimentar e viver em contextos urbanos. Investigando as maneiras de apropriar-se e relacionar-se em bairros socialmente apreciados atravÃs da violÃncia e do medo, Fortaleza foi revelada sob a Ãtica dos moradores da AerolÃndia. O espaÃo urbano, visto sob o prisma da inseguranÃa, coloca questÃes interessantes para pensar o exercÃcio da cidadania enquanto prÃticas sociais. Em sociedades de massa e de consumo a afirmaÃÃo de individualidades, identidades e visÃes de mundo passam por uma visibilidade imagÃtica difÃcil de ser efetuada em contextos perigosos. Exibir os frutos de uma inclusÃo bem sucedida na sociedade democrÃtica do consumo se coloca como uma tarefa problemÃtica quando o espaÃo pÃblico à apreciado sob o ponto de vista do aumento da criminalidade. Pensando a cidadania nÃo como categoria abstrata, mas enquanto elemento acessado no contexto das prÃticas e relaÃÃes sociais, revelam-se as complexas experiÃncias democrÃticas das massas urbanas marginalizadas. Cidadanias sÃo praticadas, nÃo possuÃdas.
This work is intended as a contribution to studies that are dedicated to understanding the ways to try and live in urban contexts. Investigating ways to appropriate and relate socially in neighborhoods marked by violence and fear, Fortaleza was revealed from the viewpoint of the residents of AerolÃndia. The urban space seen through the prism of insecurity poses interesting questions to think about the exercise of citizenship as social practices. In societies of mass and of comsumptions the assertion of individuality, identity and visions of the world pass through a visible imagery difficult to be carried in dangerous contexts. View the fruits of a successful inclusion in the democratic society of consumption is raised as a problematic task when the public space is assessed from the point of view of the increase in crime. Thinking of citizenship not as abstract category, but as an element accessed in the context of the practices and social relations are proving to be the complex experiences of democratic marginalized urban masses. Citizenships are practiced, not possessed.
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Boudou, Nadine. "Les imaginaires cinématographiques de la menace. Émergence du héros postomoderne." Phd thesis, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00818856.
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Cette thèse montre comment les imaginaires cinématographiques de la menace d'origine naturelle, technologique ou sociale traduisent le climat mental qui se développe à notre époque. L'émergence d'un héros postmoderne semble être le signe d'une mutation du social. La recherche s'appuie sur différentes analyses sociologiques du cinéma, sur l'analysede contenu d'un corpus de trente films réalisés durant la première décennie du XXIe siècle, sur des réponses à des sondages d'opinion auprès de jeunes et sur des textes d'observateurs du monde contemporain. Ceci afin de mettre en évidence les interactions qui lient le cinéma et le monde réel. Ces films constituent un terrain d'observation des obsessions du temps présent.
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Finez, Jean. "Pratiques économiques et pensées du changement dans un service public marchand : une sociologie des chemins de fer français aux XIXe et XXe siècles." Thesis, Lille 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIL12016/document.
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A partir d’un matériau composé d’archives, d’ouvrages spécialisés, de littérature grise et d’entretiens, cette thèse explore les transformations des manières de faire et de concevoir l’économie ferroviaire en France. Notre analyse socio-historique met au jour les recompositions de la politique du rail et l’évolution des logiques de gestion des compagnies ferroviaires sur le moyen et le long terme. Tandis que, dans les années 1820-1830, le développement des chemins de fer est laissé à l’initiative des entrepreneurs privés, la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle est marquée par un engagement progressif de l’Etat dans le secteur, qui finance et encadre l’exploitation de vastes réseaux organisés en monopoles régionaux. La nationalisation des chemins de fer en 1938 et la politique de planification des transports de la période d’après-guerre constituent l’apogée de ce processus d’étatisation. Le dernier demi-siècle se caractérise au contraire par une érosion de la conception traditionnelle du service public et par une intensification de la régulation marchande, dont la récente libéralisation du rail et la nouvelle politique commerciale de la SNCF sont les signes les plus manifestes. Les transformations du rail renvoient à l’évolution des catégories de pensée et d’action dominantes au sein du champ politico-administratif, aux rapports de force sociaux dans les entreprises ferroviaires, ainsi qu’aux propriétés matérielles des chemins de fer en comparaison de celles des autres techniques de transport existantes. Ensemble, ces trois dimensions définissent l’espace des possibles et des probables de l’économie ferroviaireBased on a material composed of archives, specialized books, grey literature and interviews, this thesis explores the transformations of the process of making and thinking the railway economy in France. Our socio-historical analysis reveals the rearrangements of the rail policy and the evolution of the company’s management strategy in the medium and the long term. While during the 1820’s-1830’s the growth of railways is left to the discretion of private entrepreneurs, starting from the mid-19th century the state controls the sector, financing the expanding of the network and strongly shaping large regional monopolies. The nationalisation of the French railways in 1938 and the transport planning policy after World War II represent the climax of the state control. The last half-century challenges the traditional definition of public service in the sector and gives rise to a more market-oriented regulation, symbolised by the opening to competition of the railway market and the new trade policy of the state-owned company SNCF. Changes in the sector are driven by the transformation of mindsets and practices within the “state field”, the balance of power in the rail companies, as well as the material properties and benefits of railways as compared to other existing means of transport. These three dimensions altogether define the space for possible and probable of the rail economy
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Micor, Marjorie. "Sociologie d'un engagement mémoriel : Analyse de la permanence de l'engagement militant des mineurs de fer retraités de Lorraine à partir de récits de vie collectifs." Thesis, Evry-Val d'Essonne, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0049.
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Cette thèse traite de l'influence de l'engagement militant sur la vieillesse et de la vieillesse sur l'engagement militant. Y est décrit le parcours de vie des mineurs de fer retraités de Lorraine qui ont fait perdurer un engagement militant, né dans les mines et qui a survécu à leur fermeture et à l'avancée de l'âge. Croisant la sociologie de l'engagement militant et la sociologie de la vieillesse et du vieillissement, cette recherche a révélé les effets positifs de l'engagement militant sur le vieillissement et le vécu à la vieillesse dans ses aspects cognitifs, psychologiques, psychosociologiques et sociauxThis thesis deals with the influence of militant commitment on old age and the influence of old age on militant commitment. Here are depicted the life courses of iron miners in Lorraine, who extended their militant commitment, born in the mines, beyond their closing and beyond old age. Crossing sociology of militant commutment and sociology of aging and old age, this research reveals the positive effects of militant commitment on the aging process and on experience of old age in its cognitive, psychological, psychosociological and social aspects
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Keidan, Joshua. "Learning, Improvisation, and Identity Expansion in Innovative Organizations." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1586874155982614.
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Naziri, Micah B. D. C. "Persistence of Jewish-Muslim Reconciliatory Activism in the Face of Threats and “Terrorism” (Real and Perceived) From All Sides." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch158125273779039.
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Aragão, Antonio Caetano Teixeira Paz. "Arquitetura do medo em Fortaleza." Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2017. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/25834.
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Estudamos nesta pesquisa uma Arquitetura do Medo em Fortaleza, um processo urbano, ainda que de modo diferenciado e menos expressivo, sempre existiu nas cidades e que, recentemente, tem-se apresentado de forma mais explicita nas cidades brasileiras que sofrem com os problemas da violência e do medo. Apresentamos, no primeiro capítulo, a conceituação da Arquitetura do Medo que investigamos, a sua singularidade como objeto de estudo, e o enunciado da tese que aqui apresentamos. No segundo capítulo, tratamos da abordagem das questões fundamentais da pesquisa que desenvolvemos na busca de situações que nos mostrassem os “limites” de onde pudessem surgir as “diferenças”, encontros e constituição de territórios, saberes associados à problemática e motivos da construção da Arquitetura do Medo em Fortaleza. No terceiro capítulo, procedemos a uma abordagem complementar, onde e quando estaremos identificando os limites (do fora e do dentro) numa análise de micropolíticas urbanas e processos de subjetivação, no âmbito da problemática da construção do medo, da violência, da construção dos espaços da arquitetura analisada e da cidade, mais especialmente dos espaços urbanos que sofrem interferência da implantação da arquitetura das grades e dos muros que isolam, explicitam dicotomias: seguro e inseguro; privado e público; ricos e pobres, bons(cidadãos) e maus(“elementos”), ou em três palavras: segregação, auto-segregação e medo. Concluímos com um capítulo que nos mostra que estamos lidando com um tema em que valorizamos, como método de abordagem, estudos da relação de subjetividade com a exterioridade social que é de fundamental importância para a compreensão do mundo presente, onde a arquitetura do medo é inserida, mas também mostramos que tratamos aqui de processos que podem ser reabertos, revisados, de qualquer lugar do tempo e do espaço, sem início, sem teleologia, mas com a esperança de que os processos de homogeneização dos organismos possam ser quebrados, dando espaço ao campo de imanência do desejo, onde a criatividade pode fluir em benefício de melhores espaços da arquitetura e das cidades brasileiras.
We study in this research an Architecture of Fear in Fortaleza, an urban process, although in a different and less expressive way, has always existed in the cities, and that has recently been presented more explicitly in Brazilian cities that suffer from the problems of violence and fear. We present, in the first chapter, the conceptualization of the Architecture of the Fear that we investigate, its singularity as object of study, and the statement of the thesis presented here. In the second chapter, we deal with the fundamental questions of the research that we developed, in the search for situations that would show us the "limits" of where "differences" could arise, meetings and territorial constitution, knowledge associated with the problem and reasons for the construction of Architecture of Fear in Fortaleza. In the third chapter, we proceed to a complementary approach, where and when we will be identifying the boundaries (from the outside and the inside) in an analysis of urban micropolitics and processes of subjectivation, within the scope of the problem of fear construction, violence, the analyzed architecture and the city, more especially of the urban spaces that undergo interference of the implantation of the architecture of the bars and the walls that isolate, explain dichotomies: safe and insecure; private and public; rich and poor, good (citizens) and bad ("elements"), or in three words: segregation, self-segregation and fear. We conclude with a chapter that shows us that we are dealing with a theme in which we value, as a method of approach, studies of the relation of subjectivity to social exteriority that is of fundamental importance for understanding the present world, where the architecture of fear is inserted, but we also show that we are dealing here with processes that can be reopened, revised, from any place of time and space, without beginning, without teleology, but with the hope that the processes of homogenization of organisms can be broken, giving space to a field of immanence of desire, where creativity can flow to the benefit of better spaces of Brazilian architecture and cities.
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Araújo, Tâmara Camões. "O Medo social como sintoma da violência urbana nos processos de interação social." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1409.
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This research aims at studying the social representations concerning urban violence among five different neighborhoods in Maceio, focusing on the effects felt on the one hand by the upper-class citizens and on the other hand by those who live in suburban areas. As we observe the impact of the topic in our contemporary society, it brings about a discussion above the outcomes of a violent sociability within social interactions, which have been demanding new ways of sharing the urban area. The “Emotions Sociology” has been adopted in order to analyze expressions of both social insecurity and fear, taking violence as an emergent social phenomena, as well as “Ethnomethodology”, and “The Theory of Social representations” which supports the common sense understanding as a part of group construction. During the research, 10 interviews took place and also 184 surveys have been applied in the up mentioned neighborhoods chosen in this investigation. The research results indicate that such sensations of fear and insecurity have led to a new way of organizing individual and group life, therefore, transforming society values.Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo apreender as representações sociais de violência urbana entre moradores de cinco bairros da cidade de Maceió, enfatizando os efeitos sofridos por moradores da área nobre da cidade, de um lado, e moradores de bairros periféricos, de outro. Diante das repercussões que o tema tem provocado na sociedade contemporânea, este trabalho provoca uma reflexão acerca dos efeitos produzidos por uma sociabilidade violenta nas interações sociais, que exigem a elaboração de novas formas de compartilhar o espaço urbano. A Sociologia das Emoções foi adotada na análise das expressões de insegurança e medo social, contextualizando a violência enquanto um fenômeno eminentemente social, ao tempo em que O Interacionismo Simbólico, a Etnometodologia e a Teoria das Representações Sociais deram suporte para a compreensão do senso comum enquanto conhecimento construído coletivamente. Durante a pesquisa, 10 entrevistas foram realizadas e 184 questionários foram aplicados nos cinco bairros eleitos para a investigação. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam que a sensação de insegurança e de medo tem provocado uma nova organização das vidas individuais e coletivas, transformando as relações e os valores societários dos maceioenses.
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Viskanic, Max. "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2016-18 : Migrants, Refugees and the rise of Far Right Populism." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0049.
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Le premier chapitre analyse l’impact d’un afflux relativement large et homogène d’immigrés polonais sur le Royaume Uni et quel effet ce choc a eu sur le vote Brexit de 2016. Je trouve que l’immigration polonaise au Royaume Uni a augmenté le vote Brexit mais pas assez pour expliquer la décision de quitter l’union européenne. Afin d’obtenir une variation exogène dans la répartition des immigrés polonais je me base sur le développement de réseaux de migrants proches des camps de réinstallation de guerre crées pour les soldats polonais après la deuxième guerre mondiale dont je collecte la localisation dans les archives nationales. Dans le deuxième chapitre j’utilise le démantèlement de camps de migrants illégaux proche de Calais et la répartition de migrants s’en suivant pour étudier l’impact d’une exposition à peu de migrants pendant une courte période de temps. Je trouve que l’exposition a peu de migrants réduit le vote Front National (le parti d’extrême droite français) mais que cet effet se dissipe si de grands groupes de migrants sont relocalisés. Dans ce cas, le contact ainsi que la taille relative du groupe jouent un rôle important dans la réaction des autochtones aux migrants. Dans le dernier chapitre j’analyse l’impact de la crise des réfugiés sur la demande et l’offre politique en Italie. Je montre que l’ouverture de petits centres d’accueil de migrants en Italie a réduit le vote d’extrême droite, les crimes de haine contre les immigrés ainsi qu’augmenté le vote en faveur des partis de gauche. Les effets proviennent principalement de municipalités qui sont moins connectes à internetThe first chapter analyses the impact of a relatively large and homogeneous shock of Polish immigrants in the UK and what impact said shock had on the Brexit vote in 2016. I finnd that Polish migration to the United Kingdom has increased voting for Brexit, but not enough to sway the vote for Leave. In order to achieve exogenous variation in the allocation of Polish immigrants I rely on the formation of migrant networks close to War Resettlement Camps created for Polish soldiers after WWII, which I collect from the National archives. In the second chapter I use the dismantlement of the illegal Migrants camp close to Calais and the subsequent redistribution of migrants to study the impact to the exposure to few migrants over a short amount of time. I find that the exposure to few migrants decreases the voting for the Front National, but that this effect dissipates if large migrant groups are resettled. In this case contact as well as relative group size play an important role in explaining native's reactions to migrants. In the last chapter I analyse the impact of the refugee crisis on the demand and supply of politics in Italy. I show that the opening of small reception centres for migrants in Italy have decreased voting for the extreme right, decreased hate crimes against immigrants as well as increased votes for left wing parties. The effects are mostly driven by municipalities, which are less connected to the internet. This shows the differential amplification effect digital media can have vis-a-vis traditional media. Furthermore, I find that mayors from extreme right wing parties close and are less likely to open reception centres than other politicians, rationally reacting to their decreased political support
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Silva, Fabiano Almeida da. "Body- Building e a confiança e medo no uso dos esteroides anabolizantes: uma análise sociológica." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2012. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7288.
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This paper discusses the problem of the intensive use of anabolic-androgenic steroid hormones (AAS), also popularly known as anabolic steroids by male gym-goers in a popular neighborhood in the city of João Pessoa. This research aims to understand, within a sociological perspective, the relationship of confidence and fear in the uses of anabolic steroid hormones, as well as their own motivations for the practice of bodybuilding and the use of these drugs masculinizing. Given the above, it is clear that in contemporary society, the body became a central element in the lives of many individuals, this reality, the result of the phenomenon of the cult of the body that in recent decades took radicalized forms. In this context, while the corpolatria intensifies, paradoxically grows in the same proportions, the people's dissatisfaction with their body image, especially when compared to ideal body widely socially valued. This situation is aggravated in a society in which we are charged, tried, identified and classified by body image. Thus, the overestimation of body image is causing many people to commit excesses in the use of many different ways in the pursuit of body aesthetically "perfect." These excesses are increasingly "blind", a symptom of the culture of presenteeism, which maintains the "now" as most important time for those seeking the transformation of body shape. These phenomena affect many individuals to embark in the underworld of the use of anabolic steroids with intent to build a body "healed" in a short time. In these circumstances the trust and fear is particularly important, because from these two elements, individuals direct their actions and speeches for use or not use of these substances.
O presente trabalho versa sobre o problema do uso intensivo dos hormônios esteroides anabólicos androgênicos (EAAs), também conhecidos popularmente como esteroides anabolizantes, por homens frequentadores de academia de ginástica de um bairro popular na cidade de João Pessoa. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo, compreender, dentro de uma perspectiva sociológica, a relação de confiança e medo nos usos dos hormônios esteroides anabolizantes, bem como, as próprias motivações para a prática da musculação e a utilização destas drogas masculinizantes. Diante do exposto, percebe-se que na sociedade contemporânea, o corpo tornou-se elemento central na vida de muitos indivíduos, realidade esta, fruto do fenômeno do culto ao corpo que nas últimas décadas tomou formas radicalizadas. Neste contexto, ao mesmo tempo em que a corpolatria se intensifica, paradoxalmente cresce, nas mesmas proporções, a insatisfação das pessoas com sua imagem corporal, principalmente quando comparados aos ideais corpóreos amplamente valorizados socialmente. Esta realidade se agrava em uma sociedade em que somos cobrados, julgados, classificados e identificados pela imagem corporal. Assim, a supervalorização da imagem corporal está fazendo com que muitas pessoas cometam excessos na utilização dos mais diferentes meios na busca pelo corpo esteticamente perfeito . Estes excessos estão cada vez mais cegos , sintoma da cultura do presenteísmo, onde sustenta o agora , como tempo mais importante para os que procuram a transformação da forma corporal. Tais fenômenos condicionam muitos indivíduos a embarcarem no submundo da utilização dos esteroides anabolizantes com a intenção de construir um corpo sarado em um curto espaço de tempo. Nestas circunstâncias a relação de confiança e medo tem importância particular, pois, a partir destes dois elementos (e também de outros), os indivíduos direcionam suas ações e discursos para o uso ou não uso destas substâncias.