Publication (142 pages).

The moral and
mass media
constructions
of hoarding.
The second social problem construction of hoarding I will discuss
is one framed by moral regulation. Moral regulation deals
with the ways in which different society membersdetermine
what is moral and how they impose those moralities on other
members. Hoarding can be understood as a morally regulated
problem; there exist claims and claimants that construct an idea
of hoarding as immoral and thus problematic within society.
The most important aspect of a moral construction of hoarding
is the way in which moral ideas are disseminated; these techniques
later establish the foundation for self-regulation of the
behaviour,signalling the embedding of certain moral ideologies
in everyday society.
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