SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Whitehouse, Graham Bright, Video Nasty
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Le(cid:272)ture 3: the mediu(cid:373) is the message: media co(cid:448)erage o(cid:374) both ides of the atla(cid:374)ti(cid:272) Concrete historical events can control/shape current laws. Historical events are only one piece of the puzzle that explains social control. Socialization: lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs, values, and ideologies. Attitudes that we have towards social control are acquired through the lifelong practices of. Public attitudes play a role in social control practices. The media plays a role in disseminating the norms and values acquired via socialization. The media plays a role in influencing the creation of law. The media plays a role in reinforcing currently existing laws: (cid:862)video nasties(cid:863) across the atlantic. 1974 texas chain saw massacre; low budget film that became very successful. 1979 s(cid:373)all group of produ(cid:272)ers produ(cid:272)ed a fil(cid:373) (cid:272)alled (cid:862)driller killer(cid:863); a(cid:271)out a young struggling artist who cannot pay the bills and he gradually goes insane and murders people. In 1980, there was another film, holocausto cannibal.
