SA 150 Lecture Notes - Observational Error, John Mcenroe, Industrial Revolution

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ann Travers

Document Summary

Problematize the everyday world too much media (tv, computers) is detrimental to youth health children ages 8-18 watch an average of 6 hrs 20 mins of tv daily. Reasons to get rid of the tv: the mediation experience. You don"t engage in activities, you watch people on tv do the things you want to do: the colonization of experience, effects of television on the human brain. Body and mind decay from too much tv: the inherent biases of television incorporate biases to make it seem normal and right. Liebling: freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. De kerkhove: television as the last public reality . Television"s primary goal is creating everyday life as artistic communication within specific historical and cultural contexts . Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn the values, beliefs, behaviour Agents of socialization: family, education, peers, mass media teach us the rules of our culture.