SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Media Bias, Social Control, Printing Press

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Soc100: technology: practical application of scientific principles to improve human life, human progress, modernization, calculability, taming of risk through science, we often think of tech. as helping our lives. Risk society: risks arise from processes of science and technology, most risks come from modernized society, modernization, industrialization, globalization, generalized fear and anxiety, e. g. comes from industrializations (toxins released, problems released, ambiguous, widespread, chronic threats. Normal accidents: accidents that occur inevitably through unpredictability because of the, result from complex modern technology, humans can"t predict it very complexity of modern technology. History of mass media: average weekly hours tuned, by age group. Causes of media growth: protestant reformation, personal relationship with bible, gutenberg press, encouraging people to become literate due to printing texts in high volume. Democratic movements: rights and representative government, centres of learning, informed citizenry, promoting an open and transparent government & literacy. Capitalist industrialization: literate and numerate workers, people can promote and create media.