CRJU 20423 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Complex Number, Serial Communication
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When crime waves by sacco chapter 5: that"s the rumor. As we will see, rumors, legends, gossip, and other talk about crime can be thought of as improvised news that emerges in contexts in which people lack other kinds of information. Talking about crime: wachs argues that, from one perspective, these stories can be understood as cautionary tales intended to alert those who hear them. In this sense, these stories that we tell are coded warnings about the people, places, and situations that one needs to avoid as one negotiates the public spaces of the city. The rumor process: one popular answer to why rumors begin locates their origins in the psychological process of individuals. This means that as they move along through social networks, they grow shorter. Words and the details they provide become fewer: second, rumors become sharpened and in a sense this is the reciprocal of leveling.
