Is Popular Culture An Influence On Violent Behavio

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Advanced Higher Modern Studies Dissertation Is Popular Culture an Influence on Violent Behaviour? Contents Aims of Dissertation page 2 Introduction page 3 A Brief History of Popular Culture page 6 Chapter 1 Popular Culture is an Influence on Violent Behaviour page 7 Experimental Studies into Popular Culture and Violent Behaviour page9 Columbine – A Product of Popular Culture? page 11 Violence in Films and Television page 14 Violence in Music page 17 Experimentation into Music page 19 Studies in Music and Violent Behaviour page 20 Bill Muhlenburg page 22 Long Term Effects of Popular Culture page 24 Chapter 2 Popular Culture Does Not Influence Violent Behaviour page 27 Censorship page 27 Research on Sexually Violent Material page 30 The Music Industry page 31 Theories Which Defeat the Link between Popular Culture and Violence page 33 What Types of People are influenced by Popular Culture? page 35 The Hypodermic Syringe Effect page 37 Uses and Gratifications page 41 Conclusion page 43 Bibliography page 45 Appendix A page 46 Appendix B page 47 Appendix C page 49 Appendix D page 52 Appendix E page 57 Aims of this Dissertation • Is violence a product of popular culture? See pages 10, 13, 16, 19 and 23 • Is there a relationship between violence and popular culture? See pages 6, 8, 13, 16 and 23 • Are there studies which prove a correlation between violence and popular culture ? See pages 8, 18, and 19 • Are there arguments provided which prove there is no relationship between violence and popular culture ? See pages 26, 29, 30, 36 and 40 Introduction For this dissertation, I have chosen to investigate the link between popular culture and violent behaviour. This is due to my keen interest in many
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