SOC 1500 Lecture 11: National Security
10 Dec 2015
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Definition: politically and socially constructed process of governments and the media presenting threats to national or state security in a highly dramatized and persuasive form of public discourse. We give up human security when our national security is perceived as. There must be a balance between national security and human security o. Fear can make an individual do anything o. By creating an aura of endless threat, you create an endless fear threatened. The media is used to make the public opinion shift in confidence on our o. When confidence is lost in the current system, then we more easily agree with making the system tougher (ex. Communities at risk are different from communities of risk. Protection of civil liberties for protection of national security. Stronger focus on security (fear drives people to want security over freedom) Foreign national and terrorist understood as one and the same in government discourse o o.
