SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Food Network, Consumerism, Vertical Integration
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Social control and insurance of conformity: reality and crime television shows keeps people informed of who deserves to be punished and who deserves to be rewarded. Entertainment: offers pleasure, relaxation and escape from the daily tensions and frustrations. Lesson 3: the conflict theory: belief that functionalists pay insufficient attention to the social inequality fostered by mass media. Functionalists exaggerate the functions of the mass media on our society. There are only 5 multimedia giants in canada: bce, ctv, the globe and the mail, cfcf, cky, report on business, chum radio, rogers, cfmt, toronto blue jays. Shaw: global televisions, the food network, history television. 28 daily newspapers: cbc/radio-canada only publically owned, both english and french networks. Some people think the media should be governed by the government to enforce canadian culture and others believe it should be lead by the free market. The vast majority of newspaper editors said that advertisers have tried to influence their news reports.
