Social Control Midterm 1
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- 1.Advertisement works, and those who see ads become more familiar with the brand- as such form more positive bonds with it
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Admin research goals
- A.
Goal of ads is to Convince that you need X Cognitive: appeals to logic- based on intel, facts, the utility of X (that it is good) Affective: appeals to emotion- trying to link X emotion to an event
- B.
Is interested in the question if observed violence in media leads to aggression. As such how, and what social control should be applied to stop this from happening.
- 3.Critical Research looks at
- A.
How media constructs reality- and how this is used to achieve a specific agenda via FRAMING •Conflict Frame – groups, individuals, nations, institutions •Human Interest Frame – human life stories, emotions •Economic Consequences Frame - material costs and benefits
- B.
Stuart Hall- media is not representative, but controlled by powerful. The frames that those in power create are absorbed into institutions. As such they become official bias- and they cause those framed to become the frame
- C.
Convergence: media companies owning multiple forms of media Conglomeration: media companies buying out other companies *** leads to concentration (monopolies)
- D.
Media can lead to a variety of social control: Official= regulation, censorship, or fees unofficial= boycotts, riots, parental restrictions
- 4.LEARNING THEORIES - Sutherland's Differential Association
- A.
Deviant behavior is learned
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Learned from intimate partners
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Learn the motives and techniques to crime
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Become criminal if MORE criminal definitions for your actions then none criminal
- 5.LEARNING theories- Sykes and Matza’s Techniques of Neutralization
- A.
Criminals justify their behavior
- B.
•Denial of Responsibility- say X did not know
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•Denial of Injury- Saying no X was hurt
- D.
•Denial of Victim: saying that X deserved what he got- as he sees self as fixing a wrong
- E.
•Condemning of Condemners: every one is doing it, why picking on me
- F.
•Appealing to higher loyalties: You are not wrong- but my view is more correct in this case
- 6.Generalized Learning theory:
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We through behaviorism: are conditioned to act toward x, based of reward and punishment- known as Differantial reinforcement
- B.
We imitate the behaviors we see from others- which is learned from the created Definitions and since there is more of them that make x criminal (Differental assosiation) that is what you learn
- 7.Garland's theory
- A.
In real life, their is limits to what society sees and fears of police vs what it can do irl
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The goal of society should be to intergrate social control into everyday tasks- so that it is IMPOSSIBLE to commit a crime because social control is everywhere
- C.
As such we should shift the role of policing to the general community
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