SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructionism, Carrying Capacity, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Police are the top source for journalist when they write about crime. Reality: tough vs. good cop in t. v, in contrast to what the police actually do. Even in detective work, police still do mundane work. Media as a institution: canadians spend most of their time watching t. v. , right before the spending our time on the internet. Crime: crime gives media a lot of money people want to watch, police report on crime and on investigations and read about crime things. The shape the stories that they tell. Need to be perceived as competent crime fighters. Looks at how claims in the news are presented in the media: there is space (carrying capacity) for competition, the internet is not imminent news on at night. Newspapers can only be so big, there"s only a hour a. People only have so much attention that they can. People compete to have their story and voice heard.