How is the issue of violence represented in the lives of individuals in your core text and in one other related text? Violence is presented in Blackrock and Harry Brown through the issues of, the negative influence of peers, the influence of drugs, and powerlessness. These can be seen in various scenes in both texts where youths are creating harmful situations for themselves and others around them. These issues can be examined in the scene where Ricko and Jared fight which causes the relationship between them to melt. In Harry Brown, night raids turn into a large scale riot which is a powerful example of the negative influence of peers.
Studying the relationship or influence that media, in all its forms has on its viewers or audience has always been controversial. The debate on whether the media, in this case television, just portray what the society is, like a reflection of the society or does the society mirror what the media projects still hasn’t culminated into much with most even now, taking contradictory stands. Does the media merely show the violence that the society constitutes of? Innumerable studies have been conducted to understand the same, one of the most famous of which was the Payne Studies in the year 1920, looking at the impact of violence on children. By the 1960s, the studies started focusing on understanding the increase in the prevalence of violence in
Candidate Number: Y3832068 Words: 2100 Drawing on examples, discuss the ways in which the media are able to create ‘moral panics’ The term ‘Moral Panic’ was first introduced to sociological debate in Stanley Cohen’s book Folk Devils and Moral Panics where he characterised it as an ‘episode, condition, person or group of persons’ which become ‘defined as a threat to societal values and interests’ (Cohen, S, 1972, p9). Cohen argued that the mass media’s often sensationalised, exaggerated and stereotyped representations of people or events contribute to the creation of certain demonised individuals or groups within society which he dubbed ‘folk devils’ (Cohen,S, 1972, cited in Goode & Yehuda 1994, p24). Furthermore he believed this results in a ‘deviancy amplification spiral’ resulting in negative social and political reactions and the propensity of labelled groups to identify with and reflect their stereotypes (Cohen, S, 1972, p9). There is however debate regarding the importance of the media in moral panic and its role in influencing attitudes and behaviours in general (Baldock et al, 2007). This essay is an attempt to re-examine the relevance of Cohen’s theories on the media moral panic and link them with the concepts of Moral regulation and social control.
Factors including, but not limited to, the social context at the time of the crime, the social perception of deviance, the influence of the media, and the misconduct of investigating police and prosecution played a substantial role in the subsequent miscarriage of justice. Society wrongful conviction of the case of David Milgaard, involving the rape and murder of Gail Miller in the year 1969 is no different than that of the millions of others that society has perceived as deviants and threats to the moral values and standards of the time.. By being labelled as luminal, groups are often perceived as being threatening to society and as a result tied to committing criminal activity. The police often have an image of the suspect before the suspect is distinguished (often the image deriving from the top members of society). In the case of David Milgaard, this use of character discrimination labelled him as a culprit based on appearance and not on whether he committed the crime or not. Unfortunately, David Milgaard just so happened to fit the infiltrator.
The media influences these groups through many ways, such as imitation by creating a deviant role model encouraging “copycat” behaviour. Another way that the media influences crime and deviance is through arousal from watching violent or sexual imagery. Moral Panics are created by the media through labelling. The labels that the media places on groups influence the public creating a moral panic due to the over exaggerated reaction by society
Stanley Cohen termed moral panic as a process, pointing to groups of people which are seen as threaten to the society, the version of this view stresses for breakdown of family life, threatening aggression, alcohol and drug abuse, lack of respect for others and so on, also amplified by the media and politicians, leading for stronger laws and radical changes in the contemporary society. All of those situations are pointed by Cohen as irrational as it is out of the real proportion of the actual behaviour, which is reinforced by the way in which those groups are presented by media, this presentation causes fear, labelling people as folk-devil give a sense of distinct evil rather then a normal people which does things to live as everyone does. Also there are other factors that can be considered to explain disorderly behaviour such as low intelligence, some people are inherent violent and anti-social, susceptibility or weakness, inequality. Those natural implications can be a grateful factor for how people
Sociological Theorists and Vagrancy Statutes Paper Assignment 1 Throughout history theorists and scholars alike have studied the implications of law and punishment on society, and the effects of society on law and punishment. Uncovered in the works of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias, are historical explanations of political and social determinants to legal change and their effects on economics, values and morality, and an overall well-being of ‘civilized’ nations. “Vagrancy,” being one of the malleable laws, ranging from ‘unemployed workers,’ ‘shiftless beggars,’ to ‘gamblers’ (players at dice), changes drastically within the structure of power and law. It will be my attempt throughout this paper to delineate and compare the works of social theorists and their regards for vagrancy statutes. Unlike many social theorists, Emile Durkheim saw punishment as the central mechanism in the enforcement of ‘social and moral solidarity,’ which were “fundamental conditions of collective life and social cohesion,” forming what Durkheim calls the ‘collective conscience’ (23).
“The Role of Taking Conflict Personally in Imagined Interactions" This study examines thoughts and feelings about conflict. A person may use imagined interactions (IIs) to work through a conflict situation. One factor that may affect the nature of IIs about conflict is the tendency among some individuals to take conflict personally. Taking conflict personally (TCP) is the feeling that conflict is a negative life event that is aimed at the self (Hample & Dallinger, 1995). This study examines the relationship between TCP and IIs about conflict.
This then makes us think that maybe the media and politicians see each other’s roles differently. So in assessing the media role I think we must first look at the relationships between the two factions. When looking at the media there are also a few sociological theories which I believe to be relevant. So then to assess the media’s role I believe that a brief look at the relationship between the two is necessary. The relationship then between the media and politicians according to Daniel Chandler, ‘The media and politicians have a love/hate relationship’.
The daily news escalates the problem by showing terrorist attacks and car bombings. The government needs to impose stronger regulations on violent medias. The violence from the media influences children’s actions and behavior. Violence originates from the feeling of aggression. Mass media influences people to take their aggression out with physical violence.