SOC413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mass Media, Scientific Management, Hawthorne Effect
24 Dec 2015
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Soc 413 week 3 social sorting & inequality. Four types of surveillance documenting: inverse, susveillance participant in the surveillance and, copwatching (?) Informal; lateral, everyone watching: panoptecion hieratical; one person watching everyone everyone. Synopticon: the viewer society: reality tv. But it"s a circle; savvy to their audience. Associated with the rise of mass media (the. Mass media like tv and the radio is a one-way message. Viewers are passive receivers who watch, and largely do not interact: synoptic power resides in. Edited to show usually one perspective of how things are. A better example is non-reality tv, like cnn, and fox. Television networks have power in that they chose what goes on the news, and what we learn about the world around us: ie bill clinton & monica lewinsky (an intern at the white house) Accused that they had an affair together. Eye of the news at the time.
