SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anomie, Total Institution

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

The media impersonal communication to a vast audience: television. Runs on 2 concerns: political and moral, left and right, liberal and conservative. Emotional contagion: stefan stieglitz (u duisberg essen, 2013, new information takes time to be believed, this can go on for days. Jacqui taylor (u bournemouth, 2014: the(cid:396)e is p(cid:396)essu(cid:396)e to (cid:396)ea(cid:272)t i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)tly i(cid:374) o(cid:396)de(cid:396) to (cid:271)e pa(cid:396)t of the g(cid:396)oup a(cid:374)d (cid:862)i(cid:374) the k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:863, an increase in group think, decrease in critical evaluation. John huth: the lost art of finding our way, harvard physicist, the more we rely on digital devices, the more we use our brain for this but decrease our development with other parts of the brain. Resocialisation: radical alteration of a personality through deliberate manipulation of the environment: ex. Wanting to stop a habit ad start new habits: strip away old values and norms want to see it as nonexistant and meaningless, replace those values and norms, strip away your old identity ex.