SOCI 202 Midterm: Midterm #1
24 Oct 2016
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Activities based approach (definitional): focuses on the activities that claim-makers engage in to get the audience members interested in believing. Social problems work: the human activity of categorizing some conditions and people as social problems. Diagnostic frame: constructs the meaning of the conditions: risk/ harm, cultural themes/ transgression (an offense of some sort) Prognostic frame: constructs the solutions to the problems: policy, intervention, security networks. Motivational frame: constructs the reasons why audience members should evaluate the conditions as intolerable: appeals to logic, emotion, fairness, and anger. Typification: to see everything in the typical : serves as a social resource. Risks and harms: how ones actions could potentially cause them risk and/or harm. Logic and emotion: why we should want to help find a solution to a social problem through our emotions. Formula stories: how the plot about a social problem is constructed (i. e. characters, cultural themes, etc. ) Victims: usually perceived as helpless and had risk or harm done to them.
