SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality
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Theories of the causes of violence: biological theories, they talk about hormonal/genetic causes, some people are predisposed biologically to be violence and the media would trigger these predispositions, ecological theories, violent behaviour is influenced by long term environmental factors, what in a person"s environment that makes them violent, long term environmental factors: family, education, religion and the media. Theories of how media violence causes real world violence: bullet theory, violence depicted in the media, is internalized and replicated by the audience, karen dill, page 65, on why violent video game players mostly don"t believe in a link with real world violence: the disconnect is primarily that the effects do not typically take the form that the players anticipate namely a game play session followed by murder. , meaning a game play session followed by murder, people can say i play video games, but i don"t go out and murder people.
