SOCPSY 4B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sandy Hook, Connecticut, Gun Control, Gartner
16 Feb 2021
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Week 5 theorizing mass shootings and men"s violence against women. Additional factors: class inequality, mass media, parenting. Jackson katz"s (2013) ted talk: according to katz, why is violence against women ultimately a men"s problem , how does language sometimes obscure the problem, although not all men are violent towards women, some are. What are the barriers to speaking out: how would you assess the effectiveness of the bystander approach? (what kind of research would you need to do?) Finding dawn (welsh, 2006: the narrator begins and ends the film with the question, what is it about numbers? . Can we fathom the human tragedy behind the numbers: across canada, approximately 1200 indigenous women have gone missing or have been murdered in the last three decades (rcmp 2014). Why was the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women ignored by the canadian public for so long: discuss dawn crey"s life trajectory.
