Mass Media Part 2
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- Mass Media Part 2
- Moral Panic
- The false worry about people and deviance in society.
- Deviance amplification model.
- A small group of people commit an act of deviance
- The media pick the story up. A problem group is identified.
- The media concentrate on that group in the news.
- Causes of this deviant act are exxagerated
- The group are labelled as folk devils and stereotyping occurs
- Moral panic occurs as the public think the group is a threat/harm to them.
- More social control.
- A small group of people commit an act of deviance
- The media pick the story up. A problem group is identified.
- The media concentrate on that group in the news.
- Causes of this deviant act are exxagerated
- The group are labelled as folk devils and stereotyping occurs
- Moral panic occurs as the public think the group is a threat/harm to them.
- More social control.
- More social control.
- Moral panic occurs as the public think the group is a threat/harm to them.
- The group are labelled as folk devils and stereotyping occurs
- Causes of this deviant act are exxagerated
- The media concentrate on that group in the news.
- The media pick the story up. A problem group is identified.
- A small group of people commit an act of deviance
- More social control.
- Moral panic occurs as the public think the group is a threat/harm to them.
- The group are labelled as folk devils and stereotyping occurs
- Causes of this deviant act are exxagerated
- The media concentrate on that group in the news.
- The media pick the story up. A problem group is identified.
- A small group of people commit an act of deviance
- The impact on society.
- Sociological views
- Marxist-
- dislike the media as they reinforce the hierarchy of the RC over the WC and false class consciousness
- Feminist
- dislike the media as it reinforces gender roles and patriarchy
- Functionalist
- elieve the media is beneficial as it reinforces social order
- Marxist-
- What Media reinforces and how.
- Gender roles- adverts, childrens programmes
- Patriachy- soaps and music videos
- Political socialisation- debates and the news
- Stereotypes- soaps.
- Media dominates family life; whereas before families were hardworking, hierarchical and communicative around the hearth
- Sociological views
- The media representations..
- Age
- Children are represented in a variety of ways. Children are often not held accountable for their actions.
- The news amplifies stories on youths to make their deviance and criminal acts appear more often in the media.
- Albert Cohen says that teens are often used as scrapegoats this leads to self fulfilling propehcy
- Elderly are often seen as weak and dependant on others, they can be seen as mentally challenged and grumpy.
- Ethnicity
- People are free to upload racist information on the internet.
- Black were often seen as servants to the RC
- No respect or status in society
- Black people portrayed as criminals
- Source of comedy
- Gender
- Women portrated as helpless victims
- Less capable and less intelligent compared to men
- Housewives and sex objects
- This is changing due to less sexism.
- Age
- Politics
- Political socialisation
- your learning of political values, beliefs and preferences
- Curtis and Mair 2008
- The press has too much influence on how people vote
- Negative coverage of politicians and politics has discouraged people from voting
- If newspaper readership declines- Fewer people will be exposed to the press’ supposedly negative coverage of politics and politicians that discourages people from voting at all
- Newspapers can biased towards one political party, this leads to increased votes.
- Political socialisation
- Power
- In Britain, the press is owned by a very small number of companies. This gives them alot of power
- Pluralist view
- A range of views and interests exist in society
- No single group dominate
- The range of views is reflected in the wide variety of newspapers and magazines avaliable
- press owners DO NOT control content.
- Consumers affect content through market power
- Conflict view
- Mass media is controlled by a powerful elite
- Control content in their own economical interests
- Ideological control
- Agenda setting
- The media set the agenda by focusing onsome issues and ignoring others
- Moral Panic
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