SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Indictable Offence, Partial Defence
11 Dec 2016
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Week 7: media and crime readings: media constructions of crime (pgs. 141 154: media construction of white collar violence revisited (pages 423-429) Social constructionism (concepts, rhetorical devices applied question: given example, what device: proposed a way of expanding labelling theory in which social problems are constructed as problems/deviance. Subjectivist approach: looking at the process by which social problems are defined (nothing is considered a problem until it is reacted to as such) Claim: any verbal, visual or behavioural statement that tries to persuade an audience to take a condition seriously and respond to it as a problem. Claim makers: the people (moral entrepreneurs) who make the claims and decide that something is a problem. Claims-making activities: how claim makers make these claims and how the audience responds in a favourable way. Public arenas model (concepts df, apply) media: how we can determine what type of stories make it into public attention, competition as people only hear and see so much.
