SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: 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 including news) Signorelli (1994) violence featured in 63% of prime-time network programs (average 5 incidents / hour) Most research: correlation between crime and media violence (not causation) But, research cannot demonstrate whether violence on screen leads to violence in real life. Media violence more popular among violent than non-violent viewers. Hostility inventory at theatres: viewers who chose violent movie more hostile than viewers who chose non-violent 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 seeking something that happened after the fact and connect it to something that happened beforehand) Occurs when media focus on negative aspects of behaviour in deviant groups (ex: wearing hoods, trench coats, dressing goth , listening to certain musicians, etc. )