Media - Representations of Ethnic Minorities - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

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What were Dijk's three stereotypes of black people?

Criminal, a threat (to law abiding white society) and unimportant

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Who said media stereotypes of blacks has lead to a moral panic? (criminal)

Watson

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Moral panics have been formed around which three groups? (threat)

Immigrants, refugees/ asylum seekers and Muslims

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Who argued black victims of crime are not paid as much attention as whites in the media? (unimportant)

Ligali

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Institutional bias - What are the two issues faced by ethnic minorities appearing in media?

Portrayed in low status roles and used as a result of tokenism, e.g. black presenters used as 'props' (Shah)

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A criticism of the Pluralist view is that there is lack of evidence for this e.g. Cottle found in 1993/98 reports in the Guardian focused in depth on black teen - Stephen Lawrence - and institutional racism

False, this is a criticism of the Marxist approach

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Who said media stereotypes of blacks has lead to a moral panic? (criminal)

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Watson

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Moral panics have been formed around which three groups? (threat)

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Who argued black victims of crime are not paid as much attention as whites in the media? (unimportant)

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Institutional bias - What are the two issues faced by ethnic minorities appearing in media?

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