Social Medi The Power Of Context By Malcolm Gladwell

THESIS STATEMENT: The world’s media today seem to have more violence than ever. Video games have vivid depictions of accident catastrophes, fighting and murder. Television news programs generally lead with a violent story in order to gain an audience. This is free society people can stay what they want. ‘’ Media violence has many negative effect on youth today to commit crimes in society.’’

If the change in behavior of one individual is a natural act results from internal transformation and external influences, then cultural change is an inscrutable mystery. Which factor is influential enough to cause a change in a society composed of individuals with different thoughts? There is no definite answer to this question, because there never exists one solid element that changes an entire society. There is always a combination of reasons behind such changes. However, there is always one solid factor which is present that makes culture change. In “The Power of Context”, Malcolm Gladwell describes how the crime rate suddenly “went into a precipitous decline” (151) due to changes of “the smallest details of the immediate environment” (155). On the contrary, in her text “An Army of One: Me”, Jean Twenge discusses how society systematically built Generation Me, a cultural change that happens gradually over decades. Although Gladwell and Twenge’s arguments concerning cultural change seems contradictory, they both consolidate one essential factor that makes culture change- an active assertion of change made by an individual or a group of individuals. Therefore, active attempt of change is an important cause of cultural change. Such assertiveness helps to introduce the change in the first place and makes it noticeable in the perspective of society, While it influences people’s mentality when behaving and making decisions.

When it comes to the topic of violent media, some of us would readily agree it’s a controversial subject as to whether kids should or shouldn’t be exposed to it. This is because many children who view violent media react negatively rather than not being affected at all. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of what effects does it have on children. Whereas some are convinced that it is a healthy alternative for kids to express themselves, others maintain that it causes kids to become more aggressive and contributes to juvenile crimes.

Sissela Bok opens a controversial topic on violence as entertainment which explores the effect of the increasing of violence both in fiction and in real life. Not only do films, television shows, and video games evidence an escalating level of graphic violence, but daily news of war and other human brutality are as bad as well. As less time pass on doing physical activities and an increase in using electronic devices as increases, particularly by teens, there is growing concern about a possible link between violence viewing content and actual behavior. Bok draws a balanced image, naming some possible benefits from violence. One of the benefits could be the redirection of human physical and verbal aggression and the confrontation of fears in

In Gerard Jones' essay “Violent Media is Good for Kids,” he argues a position not taken by many in today's culture. Jones advocates children should be exposed to violent media in order to overcome real life hardships. The problem with Jones' argument arise when he fails to develop his somewhat dated ideas and leaves his audience questioning how effective such exposure would be.

In the mean world syndrome video, several points are discussed about how violence in the media affects viewers. Although violent crimes has decreased over the years, the media has been showing more violent acts than before. Children have been affected by this phenomenon and it has had a disturbing effect on them too. The media should be more proactive with being fair and less damaging in the future.

The cognitive abilities and processes have a massive influence on personal behavior adjustments while physical surroundings also active and influence individuals’ decisions making. Those decisions making always include the discrimination about racism, sexism, capitalism and classism. Individuals’ behaviors are articulated by what they perceive and what is stored in their memories, however, with the changes of the environment and with the time flows, those perceptions that stored in people’s mind might be changed. In “The Power of Context”, Malcolm Gladwell depicts that people’s characters are not only related to the cognitive association, but also affected by the physical surroundings because things that exist in individual’s residence also shape who they are. Similarly, Leslie Bell in her article, “Hard To Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”, discusses that because of the change of physical surroundings, women now have more courages to express what they want, especially the needs of sexual activities, but the cognitive associations of the public would bring women who have desire of sex prejudgments that are harmful to their dignities. Similarly, Michael Moss, the author of “The Extraordinary Science of Additive Junk Food”, talks about the extraordinary science behind tastes and junk food addictions, and how multinational food companies struggle to maintain their "stomach shares" in the face of mounting evidence that their foods are driving the

In nowadays, individuals who are experiencing unfair treatments and violence should be free and brave to express their feelings and claim for human rights that can help to arose social changes. However, according to the three readings that we would discuss, the preconceptions of individuals are still depend on their races, genders, social background or other geographic groups, so that people who are suffering conventional or unconventional abuses in the real world are considered as social vulnerable groups. In “The Power of Context,” Malcolm Gladwell provides a theory and a phenomenon, which are the Broken Window Theory and New York City Subway situation. He uses these two examples to illustrate both cognitive associations and physical surroundings would affect the vulnerable groups and that specific cases can lead to various reactions from the members of the involved society. Similarly, Leslie Bell tackles culture changes and environment can affect choices and raise internal conflicts regard to twenty-something women. In “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” Bell argues that today’s young women need to face the widely contradictory cultural changes may cause them extremely difficult to freely and fully realize their wants because of the vulnerabilities of female. In the same way, Michael Moss, the author of “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” describes the choice of focus groups made and they chose to aim at creating

Identity is very individual to each person, but ultimately they must be formed in similar manners. Malcolm Gladwell proposes in his work, “The Power of Context”, that the environment that we are surrounded by has a huge role in determining how we act and the decisions that we ultimately make. According to him, the little details that we overlook on an everyday basis are much more powerful than first perceived. On the contrary, Barbara Fredrickson believes that our inner biological components are responsible for much of our identity and what we feel. In the text, “Love 2.0”, it is suggested that love is nothing more than chemical components inside us that, without regulation, will perpetually fluctuate. With control, however, Barbara Fredrickson

In the modern-day world, people are convinced that the Earth is plagued by mass shootings and other acts of violence because of violent media. Children and adolescents being exposed to violent media is deemed, by society, to be detrimental to their mental health. In Gerard Jones’ “Violent Media is Good for Kids,” he vindicates violent media. Exposing children to violent media through video games, comic books, and movies are beneficial to children in Jones’ claim. He believes that violent media creates opportunities for children and teaches children to overcome their fears in order to battle their own subconscious hurdles.

The human subconscious is one of the easiest things to manipulate. Companies do it all the time by continuously raising their levee exposure repeatedly by advertising constantly. Much like companies, educational institutions and societal systems influence the human subconscious in the same way, just with a strong less recognizable form of advertising. These institutions and systems use social stigma. In Malcolm Gladwell’s “the Power of Context” the power of social stigma is shown by how context effects a situation, And in Karen Ho she identify the social stigma of being “elite” and getting a higher education. Societal stigma is the way of the system (society) to advertise to their people what is okay, and what is not okay. With societal

Attitudes towards different issues in society derive from the prevailing beliefs in such a society. Every trending issue in society helps shape the attitudes that people develop and greatly influences their behavior. Every society has prejudged perceptions and the prejudged perception always relates to the cognitive associations because individuals already has a fixed mode in minds. This prejudgment and reaction is often informed by the various experiences that the society may have undergone through in the earlier instances of occurrence of specific events. Leslie Bell, the author of “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” largely focuses on female sexuality detailing the often confusing situations that twenty-something ladies have to contend with, with regards to their sexual freedom. She argues that female sexuality remains a persistently emotional issue and that the emotions have enhanced the hard stances taken in the female sexuality debate are largely fueled by the religious and social beliefs that prevail in most societies. In “The Power of Context,” Malcolm Gladwell brings about the possible causations factors of crime in modern societies and it details some of the factors, which can influence the way people likely to react to specific cases in crime commission. He explains the power of context idea as means to deduce why specific cases lead to specific reactions from the members of the involved society. Both two

An individual’s context is the people that is around the individual and the surrounding environment is what surrounds the individual at the moment. In the 21st century, more and more research done by experts had proven the importance of the context and surrounding environment as to how an individual behave in the different situations. In her book Hard to Get, psychologist Lesile Bell shed some lights how the women of the twentieth century define themselves via sexual experience and social interaction. Malcolm Gladwell, the writer of The Power of Context, illustrated how much impact an individual’s context and environment have on the individual’s behavior through different social experiments. Psychologist Jean Twenge shares her opinion in

Media violence is one of the most debated public issues society faces today. Television screens are loaded with the glamorization of weapon carrying. Violence constitute as amusing and trivialized. Needless portrayals of interpersonal violence spread across the television screens like wild fire. Televisions spew the disturbing events such as children being assaulted, husbands inflicting domestic abuse on their wives and children succumbing to abuse by their parents. Scenes of betrayal, anguish, infiltrate the television screen. Unfortunately, a child becomes subjected to media violence. Everything a child sees or hears in the media affects them in some way or another. The precise effects of media violence on children are

In the book Critique of Violence ,author Walter describes Violence as "The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, male development, or deprivation .The violence that is portrayed in the media has been debated for decades ,and it has rose a question about how does it influence the youth?. From movies to video games society has been accustom to seeing violence in their everyday entertainment. Since children are easy to be influence by their environment, it is safe to say that violence in the media can and will contribute to violent behavior.