SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasty, Social Control
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How the media can be a tool from country to country. Media representation of cocaine (bag filled with a white substance) Media plays a powerful role in constructing our perspectives. Media frames, how media is used can vary from country to country. Social control practices can be maintained and reinforced through the media. The medium is the message: media coverage on both sides of the atlantic. Lifelong process of inheriting an disseminating norms, customs, clause and ideologies. We"re constantly being socialized from the day we"re born. Family: our parents discipline us, tell us what"s right and what"s wrong, socialize us into obeying the law, what to wear, what not to wear. Education: teachers particularly in primary years. In kindergarten socialized to raise your hand. In university socialized to take notes, study, prepare for careers. Religion: leaders in the religious community, spiritual texts. The media plays a role in influencing the creation of law.
