SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Making Money

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Parnaby

Document Summary

Midterm: wednesday at 6 written component will be out on courselink. Constructing deviance: the (cid:498)traditional media(cid:499: media and claims about deviance, representation vs. reality deviance. Disconnect between what really happened and what the media says happened. Because the media doesn"t portray the deviance they become the mechanism in the way we understand crime or. The importance of revenue (market yourself affectively) . The more entertaining the more it will be shared with the wider audience about it. Constructing deviance: the (cid:498)traditional media(cid:499: social and organizational factors. Sort through the story and how you will hear it. Filter of the things that you hear about deviance. Fills the time and fills the space accordingly: newsworthiness. The bigger they are the more interesting and more views they will get. Dramatic people get the attention on the news. Editors want to give you a familiar look of the media (reading about airplane crash most likely on the.