Titlebook: Gossip; The Inside Scoop Jack Levin,Arnold Arluke Book 1987 Jack Levin and Arnold Arluke 1987 personality.psychology.social psychology.soci

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287976ho transgress and, at the same time, to warn everyone else not to transgress, lest they be shunned as well. Reporting the liabilities of other people through gossip issues a warning: “With every bit of gossip comes the unspoken refrain suggesting, ‘So you had better do thus’ or ‘Beware of ever doing

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287976 thus.’“ In his study of a small town he called Plainville, sociologist James West similarly reported, “People report, suspect, laugh at, and condemn the peccadilloes of others, and walk and behave carefully to avoid being caught in any trifling missteps of their own.”.

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The Gossip Reporter as Anthropologist,hey try to get the “inside scoop” on celebrity culture by examining what the “natives” of Hollywood do at work and at leisure, on the set and at home, while attending dinner parties or business meetings.

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Conclusion,eading the dirt, one finds little in the way of nasty or vicious content. Certainly, there are gossip reporters who have made mistakes, printed errors, and acted unethically. But even among the most notorious and powerful of the professional gossips, cases of unethical revelation and distortion have been the exception to the rule.