SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: School Violence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

11 years old: 100,000 acts of tv brutality (not news) Signorelli (1994) > violence in 63% of prime-time programs (ave 5. Most research: correlation between crime and media violence. But, research can not demonstrate whether violence on screen leads incidents / hour) to violence in real life. Chicken / egg problem: do antisocial individuals seek out violent. Media violence more popular among violent than nonviolent viewers. Hostility inventory at theatres: viewers who chose violent movie more hostile than viewers who chose nonviolent movie (both male and female) Viewing / listening / playing doesn"t cause one to be violent. We hear about violent offenders" choices of music / movies after and assume they"re causes of violence (post hoc fallacy) find something after the fact which can explain something beforehand. Occurs when media focus on negative aspects of behaviour in deviant group (e. g. wearing hoods, trench coats, dressing goth, listening to certain musicians, etc. )