SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Models 1, School Violence, Moral Panic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Theories of the media: technological, critical (social science) Who owns the media and what message are they portraying. Focused on process by which certain conditions or people become socially constructed as social problems. Language: language used to talk about social problem. Deviants: looking at the way deviants are constructed. Claim making activities who are the people making the claims and what claims are they making. 1. strict constructionist do not recognize an objective dimension. Believe that something doesn"t exist until someone says it does. 2. contextual constructionist can look at statistics to see whether or not they are good. Look at the message being told and how it relates to the real world. 3. debunkers debunk claims that have been made by other people. Found that as homicides decreased the rate of reporting homicides increased. Gave his people an understanding that homicides were happening a lot. How competition plays out to have their claims heard.