How do young adults negotiate consent and responsibility in sexual encounters involving intoxication? Drawing on 31 qualitative interviews with young adults in the Greater Stockholm area, this article conceptualizes such encounters as situations in which taken-for-granted moral orientation may become destabilized. Participants described uncertainty about intentions, consent, responsibility, and the meaning of events, especially where memory loss, uneven intoxication, or unclear reciprocity were involved. To navigate this uncertainty, they relied on practical moral heuristics, including distinctions between being “tipsy” versus “too drunk,” the “dead-drunk” taboo, and ideals of intoxication parity or being on the “same level.” These heuristics translated uncertain internal states into workable social cues for judging fairness, vulnerability, and legitimacy, yet were also shaped by gendered sexual scripts. The article contributes to moral sociology by theorizing moral judgment as a situated accomplishment under conditions of uncertainty.
Over the past decade, sexual consent has become a site of increasing public attention due to the advocacy of victim-survivors of sexual violence, the rise of the #MeToo movement and the move to models of affirmative consent. Complicating this picture are the challenges of negotiating consent while intoxicated, given th...
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Can predictable impairments of epistemic performance constitute injustice in the absence of harassment, manipulation, or prejudicial credibility deflation? I use this question to examine a case drawn from ordinary intellectual exchange: in mixed-sex settings, some male speakers may be distracted by the perceived attr...
No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long‐term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go well, why does it dominate sexual ethics? Critics have pressed this challenge but have failed to explain why consent is...
Dogs are undoubtedly loved, but they are also judged and morally evaluated in ways that often reflect human expectations more than canine needs. This study explores how cultural narratives and anthropocentric moral frameworks shape perceptions of canine behavior. Drawing on qualitative interviews with dog caregivers,...
Atheists are often judged not only by what they disbelieve but by what their disbelief is presumed to remove: an
authoritative basis for moral obligation. This article is an exploratory qualitative study of five nonbelievers in Pakistan
and reads the interview material alongside a comparative body of qualitative resear...
Sanjna, Faisal Rasool· International journal of res...· 0 citations
Public responses to minor transgressions increasingly unfold in digital environments where both the initial act and its public circulation become open to collective judgement. Although research on online shaming and digital vigilantism has documented patterns of condemnation, less is known about how evaluative attentio...
S. I. Alliu, K. Odunjo-Saka, O. V. Adedeji et al.· African Journal of Social an...· 0 citations
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