Slide 2 - Social Control Flashcards
What does Marvin Olden argue about all social organizations
They use social control to maintain their boundaries regulate member activities, and perform key and perpetuate [preserve] order
What is social sanctioning and what is does it help accomplish
It helps assert social control by accomplishing primarily through either social sanctioning or social management
Administering of rewards and punishments
- They typically behave in ways that will win them rewards and help them evade punishments
What is social management and what does it help accomplish
It helps assert that social control is accomplished primarily through either social sanctioning or social management
It involves shaping people’s social setting
* Creating opportunities and constraints that influence or modify the actions of group members can be extremely effective
What is othering
othering is a tendency to view some people as outsiders and, in turn, unlike and less-than oneself
- Sense of threat is likely to generate a process called othering
What is an environmental threat
Produce fearfulness and manupulate people’s sentiments, just like terrorism does
Crowson found that right-wing authoritarianism and social conservatism were predictors of support for restricted human rights during US military involvement in Iraw
True
What is persuasion
It is a process of advising aimed at convincing the listener to take a specific course of action
How does Persuasion work on people
it gains its effect by the apparent wisdom and objectivity of the argument it makes
What is claims-making
Process by which groups create and promote claims they hope will be granted credibility or legitimacy by the mass public - Through claim-making, groups hope to persuade thepublic to behave in certain ways
What did Joel Hest argue about the rhetoric of claim-makers when it came to criminal or deviant acts as social problems
The media is a claims-maker when it ties to transform incidents of random crime I into ‘larger problems’
The media played a role in numerous ‘moral panics’ including the satanic scare, the anti-cult movement, the ‘missing-children’ epidemic, and the Halloween ‘sharp objects in candy scare’
How was persuasion been used as a communication strategies for both good and bad purposes
Anti-smoking labels on cigarette packages have been proven to be effective in inducing smokers to quit and in preventing future smokers
Cigarett companies use persuasive techniques of their own, most importantly by framing the medical evidence about smoking as ‘ambiguous’ [when it was not] for decades
What is a shame
Is a sense of disgrace or embarassment arising from the memory, or exposure ofdishonourabe and offensive acts
Can lead to important psychological effects on individuals, such as neurosis
What dis Silfver study
Studied cultural and gender differences in guilt and shame in Finnish and Peruvian and adolescents
Peruvians, as a whole, were more collectivist traditional, and prone to guilt than Finns
Male and female peruvians were equally likely to feel guilt or shame
Female finns were much more likely than male Finns to feel guilt or shame
What is Guilt
Guilt is the remose a person feels for breaking a rule or committing a shameful act
Like threat, persuasion, and shame, it is the result of social learning and manipulation by parents, schools, political leaders, and churches
What is collective guilt
guilt shared by a group or social category over wrongs committed in the past against other groups or social categories
