SOC 3750 Midterm: Police in Society Lecture Notes Post Midterm.docx
13 Apr 2013
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Paper: (language) discipline vs. everyday: avoid: society, individual (use person or people), culture. Public arenas model: competition: carrying capacity, principles, 1. Drama: vivid and dramatic= mass shootings: 2. Novelty: new= exploit current events in new ways, create attention, new spin/evidence: 3. Culture: rooted mythic themes= loss of life, certain victims are more worthy (ex. Frame analysis: goffman (definition): the way in which stories are framed. All news stories are framed before they are told to us: entman (1993): four functions. Causal interpretation: story will identify sources that create problem (violent movies/ video games) Moral evaluation: causal agents are evaluated, are they a victim of circumstances. Treatment recommendation: remedies suggested, ways to justify treatments, It seems greater than the actual threat: media role: spreading panic. So public demanded that things happened to control young people: characteristics. Exaggerating in reporting: facts are overblown because they give story a bigger edge. Things used out of context, only focus on one thing.
