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Obscenity Reactions: Toward a Symbolic Interactionist Explanation
Author(s) -
FODDY WILLIAM H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1981.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - symbolic interactionism , denial , interactionism , identity (music) , epistemology , the symbolic , social psychology , psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , aesthetics
It is suggested that there is a syndrome of reactions elicited by stimuli people define as obscene and that these reactions can be explained within a symbolic interactionist framework. More specifically, it is argued that they are reactions to the denial or destruction of a person's ability to achieve and/or maintain an identity that is socially acceptable to him within a particular situation.