“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal

Ferguson, Jason L.

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“…In addition, Malawi’s layered cultural history is amenable to the simultaneous circulation of anti-violence scripts and patriarchal scripts given their connection to existing notions of nkhanza (unjustified abuse) and kulangiza (requisite discipline) (Chepuka et al 2014; Johnson 2018:18–19; Nthala 2013:65; Saur et al 2005). Future analyses in contexts with strong direct opposition to liberal scripts could yield substantially different outcomes and help identify the necessary institutional factors for diffusion to occur in the first place (Ferguson 2021). In addition, contextual factors related to gender, social class, caste, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status likely differ across contexts and could substantially alter the patterns I observe in Malawi.…”

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Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women

Swindle

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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Current theories of global cultural diffusion outline abstract mechanisms through which cultural scripts spread across the world. To reveal how scripts reach individuals, one must identify the specific pathways of diffusion. I examine the case of how scripts about gender relations and violence are diffused through mass media to people in Malawi. Using a mixed-methods approach, I find that international development organizations work with Malawian journalists to produce an array of content denouncing the practice of men abusing women. Entertainment media companies, however, disseminate content portraying patriarchal gender stereotypes. I show that mass media content critical of men’s violence of women is positively associated with people’s stated rejection of this practice, whereas individuals’ exposure to content mixed with patriarchal scripts is not. Notably, a one-standard-deviation increase in the number of newspaper articles critically covering men’s abuse toward women in the 30 days leading up to a person’s unique survey interview date is associated with a 3.2 (women) or 2.1 (men) percentage-point increase in the probability of respondents stating that they condemn such violence. Broadly, the results outline a multifaceted portrait of global cultural diffusion, with liberal and patriarchal scripts simultaneously reaching individual people.

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Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women

Swindle

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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“…More broadly, our study outlines the dynamics of opposition in world society, which is not simply a monolithic regime that propels global conformity. As scholars have long pointed out (e.g., Inglehart and Baker 2000;Beckfield 2010;Wimmer 2021;Ferguson 2021), alternative cultural frames are available, both within world institutions and embedded in regional, national, or local structures. Episodes of diffusion are propelled by the legitimation of cultural models on the global stage and the build-up of international structures around dominant models.…”

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Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education

Schofer

Lerch

Meyer

2022

Minerva

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Higher education has expanded at astonishing rates around the world. We seek to understand the oppositions that periodically arise, which may produce enrollment declines and/or imposition of political controls. The post-1945 growth of higher education was – to a greater extent than is often recognized – propelled by the liberal, and later neoliberal, international order. Oppositions arise from illiberal alternatives, which also may organize globally. The recent weakening of the global liberal order, associated with growing populism and nationalism, creates conditions for a new wave of oppositions. We hypothesize that attacks on higher education emerge in countries less integrated into world society and in countries linked to international structures that support illiberal alternatives. We examine cross-national data on higher education over the period 1960–2017. Enrollments and funding are higher in societies more tightly linked to world society and lower in countries tied to illiberal international organizations. Analyses of enrollments in various fields, constraints on academic freedom, and terrorist attacks on education institutions show similar pattern. Finally, we observe heterogeneity in the forms of illiberal opposition: countries that suppress academic freedom generally are less likely to restrict enrollments.

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“…This dimension of individualism, egoism, stresses the primacy of one’s own interests and prerogatives over an obligation to the wider community. As Ferguson (2021:709) put it in a different context, (neo)liberal world society gives priority to “individual freedoms over collective duties.” With few exceptions, vaccines protect not only their recipients but others as well, especially vulnerable members of the community who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. 6 When a majority of the population gets vaccinated, herd immunity is achieved and the entire community is protected.…”

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Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018

2023

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In the past decade, before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, rates of childhood vaccination against diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus declined worldwide. An extensive literature examines the correlates and motives of vaccine hesitancy—the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines—among individuals, but little macrosociological theory or research seeks to explain changes in country-level vaccine uptake in global and comparative perspective. Drawing on existing research on vaccine hesitancy and recent developments in world society theory, we link cross-national variation in vaccination rates to two global cultural processes: the dramatic empowerment of individuals and declining confidence in liberal institutions. Both processes, we argue, emerged endogenously in liberal world culture, instigated by the neoliberal turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Fixed- and random-effects panel regression analyses of data for 80 countries between 1995 and 2018 support our claim that individualism and lack of institutional confidence contributed to the global decline in vaccination rates. We also find that individualism is itself partly responsible for declining institutional confidence. Our framework of world-cultural change might be extended to help make sense of recent post-liberal challenges in other domains.

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“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal

Cited by 8 publications

References 141 publications

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women

Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education

Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018

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