SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dill, Kindergarten, Observational Learning
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Family, education, religion, and the media: these influences can teach ppl about violence, socialized into violence, cultivation: more relevant theory. Theory that ppl who have long term exposure to violent media develop perceptions and beliefs about violence in real world. Difficulties in seeing differences in fantasy + reality. Interactionist: key features: strongly consider both personal and environmental qualities, bring together the other theories (meaning of interactionist, some ppl have predisposition. Violent content on tv how much violence is there on tv: content analysis: tells ua bout the nature of the content. Is that better or worse than when they see violenve being used without socialy acceptable rules: teaching audience is that violence is kegitimate as long as you have a cause. Can argue that the violence we see in batman is actually more of a social problem than violence we see in kindergarten killer. Batman proviing moral context that we can all buy into.
