The Media Presented The Riots Of 2011

Since people are mostly only able to participate in catastrophes such as this mass shooting at a distance, news media is the primary source of information, which therefore creates the audiences’ reality of the events that occur.(Wheeler 80) With this, the mass media has the control of what people are exposed to, and the choice to amplify awareness to what they choose as important. In an interview conducted with Sarah, an undergraduate student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she recalled her exposure to the news of the shooting: “The only reports I had access to, was what I saw in the news”. When asked how she thinks the media had an effect on her perception of the shooting, she stated: ”Well I believe that since the only information I was able to get was from news sources, what I saw in the news is what I believed. So I really do think the media had a strong effect since I was exposed to mainly what they chose to present to me.” With this, media messages, such as the reporting on the Las Vegas shooting, exert a strong influence on audiences and the cultivation of people’s perception. The frequent exposure to these stories of mass shootings and the use of descriptors based on race are fed to the audience and become a common knowledge. Ultimately, the promotion of racial stereotypes through the disproportionate representation of perpetrators of mass shootings influences public opinion and perception.(Lankford) With the strong effect that media has on the people, it is

In conclusion, it is clear that there are a lot of reasons as to why some sociologists choose not to use questionnaires when carrying out research. Some of the main

For the first part of this paper, I will look at the riots that transpired

I conducted my research by first thinking of what I wanted my topic to be on. I didn’t want it to be a topic that is common because I want my project to be something unique, not something

We live in a place where we are masked with blindfolds given by the creators of our corrupt home we call America. The land of the free, but then again are we really ? Or are we just victims of a homicide that not only takes the life of a person, but their mind. Fed empty thoughts and brainwashed by the media in effort to distract the mind from the  realities and importance of a given situation, and into meaningless topics and conversations. A world ran off of media that is quick to publicize and dramatize the divorce of a famous couple but downplays police brutality and the mass killings of predominately black individuals. But don't you dare speak out upon it and state things such as “black lives matter” because with that comes the outrush

The very first thing millions of people do when they wake up is check their phones, and log into whatever social media sites that they are a part of, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and many more. On these sites, there are several ads or newspaper articles depicting different political messages or views. These advertisements and news articles can easily influence our thoughts on different aspects of life, such as religious view or racial identity. During the era of the race riot, the people of this time had their own version of media: the newspaper. More often than not, the first thing people did in the morning was read the newspaper. The image that comes to mind is businessmen sitting on trains or families gathered together in the morning reading the newspaper. In 1908, Springfield, Illinois experienced a race riot that was mainly controlled by the opinion they were receiving from the material from the media that they read and viewed.

Epistemological criticism argues that all approaches are unlikely to produce consistent evidence because of the inherent property. It will generate a new viewpoint. However, through abundant reading, triangulation will enlarge width and depth in qualitative research and provide an analysis with security- a overall perspective. Participants can improve the validity of research. Bloor (1978) argues that sociologists can establish a correspondence with participants, in which participants can identify, give assent and judgement to sociologists.

The media bias is also not going away anytime soon. If I were to continue this research, I would implement the four theories, agenda setting theory, gatekeeping theory, social movement theory, and public opinion theory, and use them to analyze different events in the news. The point would be to see what theories give stories the most ‘stickiness’ and the most headlines. However, recognizing that many important stories do not gain the attention they deserve, I will also apply the theories to those incidents to see why they did not make it to mainstream

Therefore, feminist sociology is not effective in leading women towards change or an end to dominant heterosexual assumptions that put patriarchy at power. Thus, it is difficult for women to breakthrough the oppression merely on theories and lacking practical action or reforms. When sociologists, such as Smith uses categories to analyze the relationship between women and her male counterpart, she draws on this notion that there is this believed or assumed natural heterogender relationship in society. As Smith proposed, men are able to work in the public materialist world and contribute to the everyday capitalist world is due to the existence of a female figure working within the private sphere to support the workings within the household, and in turn, make a patriarchal and capitalist society possible. Therefore, there is the assumed husband and wife, nuclear family in the household, with each playing their part and indicating that every individual is required to situate themselves as actors in this

Positivist sociologists would argue that unstructured interviews are a disadvantage for sociologists to use in sociological research because it cannot be quantified. As unstructured interviews are mainly open-ended questions, the answers cannot be pre-coded. This lack of quantitative data makes unstructured interviews less useful for establishing a cause-and-effect relationship and hypothesis testing that positivists prefer. For example, it is impossible to quantify how a woman might feel after experiencing domestic violence, making it difficult to establish a relationship between the actions taken against women and the long term psychological effect. Therefore, unstructured interviews are a disadvantage when used in sociological research. However, interpretivist sociologists may see the

Imagine living in a world where men and women did not have a right to collide together on any political, economic, cultural, personal and social levels. Men were considered only allowed to do “manly things.” Women were only allowed to do things that helped the family. Feminism is a movement that creates ideas that men and women can be equal in political, economic, cultural, personal and social aspects. There are two different methods for feminist research discussed in the article Feminist Methodology for Family Studies by Linda Thompson; the methods are qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research is “a method of inquiry employed in different academic disciplines” (Thompson), in other words more traditional base research. Quantitative research is “a method with more numbers and statics” (Thompson), meaning more of a here in my fact and here is my evidence. Feminism is not used to offend either sex; it is simply a group of people that would like all aspects of the society to be equal to both men and women.

The riots in England in 2011 can be explored in terms of social psychological phenomenon. As such, the initiation and maintenance of the riots could have happened due to a number of interlinking factors, including minority influence, social learning theory, and deindividuation.

A Critical Discussion on the Ways in Which Sociologists Attempt to Study Aspects of Gender

Moral panics have been a topic of interest by those who are concerned with criminal and deviant behavior for many years. The term first appeared in criminology in a book written by Stan Cohen, in 1972 and involved a general misinterpretation of the situation, with an exaggerated reaction to a perceived threat, when the actual threat that is being offered (Cohen, S., 1972) (Walters, R., & Bradley, T., 2005). This essay will attempt to explore this concept in further detail, with regards to the literatures findings and explanations of the motives, processes and finer details of a moral panic. It will then explain the media’s role in perpetuating the cycle that is involved with a moral panic. This will include the justification that is used by those in media roles, and the “melodrama” (Anker 2005) (Wright, S., 2015) that is often used in the reports of the issues that give rise to the panics. Lastly, the outcomes of the media’s influential role in the process will be examined through the literature, and also through examples of moral panics in recent settings. This will hopefully provide an overall understanding of the development, perpetuation, and lasting effects that are involved in a moral panic.

Since the twentieth century, there has been a debate about which research paradigm is the most optimal and enables valid and rigorous way to collect data and study social phenomena (Kervin, 2015). A paradigm is defined as the mind-set of a researcher relating to their beliefs around acceptable ways to research, including the questions, the methodology and ways of interpretation (Kervin, 2015). One paradigm, positivism, aims to conduct research in a scientific manner, valuing statistics, replicability and wide generalisations and utilises quantitative methodology to answer questions relating to quantity e.g. ‘how many?’ (Szyjka, 2012; Wahyuni, 2012; Taylor & Medina, 2013). Researchers utilising this paradigm believe in an ‘objective