SOC 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Iced Tea, Sanford, Florida, Due Process

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Sean Springer

Document Summary

Violence and popular culture: violence exists and has existed in all societies. In contemporary north american society, we also see violence frequently in media--from news to films to video games. They argue that we need to make interconnections between class, gender, race and inequality in the debate on violence. This can be a difficult shift to make because contemporary media is rife with overt and subtle instances of violence. Violence is portrayed in the news, music videos, reality tv crime shows, films and video games. Law-and-order ideology: law-and-order ideology has been chronically present in public, media, and political discourse, but it has assumed an even larger role in recent years. Particular media portrayals of criminal justice interact with and help to shape, reinforce, and evolve this ideology, even as they are in turn shaped by it. The relationship is thus a dynamic and circular one.