Week 5 - Law, Order, Politics, and Social Change Flashcards
Identify and define the term ‘infotainment.’
entertainment that has information i.e. Portrayal of crime and justice as entertainment
Identify and recognize the ways in which mass media provides a lens to view law, order, and politics.
- many people get their foundational knowledge of crime, justice, and the law from popular culture in a mediated world through digital platforms
- human nature - people tens to be fascinated with underside/salacious aspects of crime
- widespread moral panics - how have ideas of deviancy and perversion filtered through media and also informed public knowledge about crime
- really strike at the heart of the role of storytelling and reading our world
Identify and recognize how crime and justice are portrayed in popular culture.
- we are surrounded by representations of popular culture in media so it’s significant in popular ideas about law, crime, and justice
- Courtroom as theatre - i.e. Judge Judy
- research has shown widespread effects of crime news/entertainment on justification of law/order, social control, civil rights intrusions (i.e. border crossing shows)
Identify and define what a social movement is and recognize why they are important to social and legal chance.
- social movement: is campaign that shares a common goal or objective. They typically work to support of a specific social, political, or economic agenda, including efforts to bring about legal change, or maintain the status quo
- important because they serve as a specific example of the ways in which society can influence politics and, in turn, bring about the kind of legal reforms and economic transformations that precipitate actual social change
Identify and recognize the various waves of the Canadian Women’s Movement, including their individual timelines, goals, tactics, limitations, and accomplishments.
- Defining the Women’s Movement/First Wave Feminism
- 1880s to the 1920s
- achieve the vote, or suffrage, and have women recognized as persons under the law with property, economic, and legal rights
- right for some* women to vote federally in 1917 under the War Measures Act, and the recognition of women as persons under the law in 1929
- Second Wave Feminism
- 1960s to 1970s
- efforts to address pay equity with legislation;
- calls for peace and disarmament;
- access to education for women;
- changes to the law to allow women to access to legal divorce;
- efforts to address systemic gender based violence and sexual assault against women;
- access to reproductive technology for women
- Third Wave Feminism
-1990s
-sexism;
-sexual harassment;
-complexities of issues such as race, ability, and sexual orientation.- blended into the Fourth Wave, which is ongoing and stretches into the present day.
Identify and recognize the ways in which social reform and protest enacted legal reform in the context of sexism and gendered discrimination in Canadian society.
Simply stated: the law is an important mechanism for social change, and the Canadian Women’s Movement illustrates that a group of people, when motivated, can bring about revolutionary legal change. When these events are covered by the media, as was the case of the Abortion Caravan, they became stories in the popular realm, but also also served to galvanize consensus for social change and persuade people to alter their social values and norms.
Identify how the topic of violence against women and sexism was dealt with by Members of Canadian Parliament in the 1980s and ’90s.
- male MPs in the Canadian House of Commons laughing boisterously at the topic of wife beating in 1991 when NDP MP Margaret Mitchell brought up this topic
-watershed event - words like “slut” and other terms derogatory towards women were not unparliamentary (banned from the HOC)
- Parliament was an “old boys club”, unfriendly to women
List and recognize the goals and strategies of the Abortion Caravan.
1969, Pierre Trudeau’s government had made abortion legal in limited circumstances.
In 1970, seventeen women from Vancouver Women’s Caucus drove 4,500 kilometres across Canada to Ottawa, gathering supporters as they went. They invaded Parliament Hill and shut down the House of Commons.
Their goal was to change Canada’s restrictive abortion law.
May 11, 1970, while protesters chanted outside, 35 women entered the public galleries of the House of Commons.
They had chains hidden in their purses. They shackled themselves to their chairs, and began to shout.
In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s abortion law as unconstitutional.
Compare, contrast, and differentiate the central differences, and overlaps, between qualitative and quantitative data collection.
qualitative analysis: method to generate data that focuses on context and meaning
quantitative analysis: method that focuses on quantification, or numbers
Identify what content analysis is and its methods of data collection and interpretation.
content analysis is a type of observational research in which people are studied indirectly via their communications
- spoken
- written
- media
- aim is to summarize in a systematic way so that conclusions can be drawn
Identify and define the different kinds of content analysis and define conceptual analysis, relational analysis, manifest content, and latent content.
Codification/coding units
- initial stage
- taking quantitative data
Thematic Analysis
- identification of recurrent themes
- qualitative outcome
Identify the steps of content analysis and recognize what a coding scheme is.
Identify and recognize the strengths and weaknesses of content analysis.
strengths
- ethical issues not a problem
- high external validity
- flexible - can be both quantitative and qualitative
weaknesses
- could lack objectivity
Identify and recognize the appeal and communication strategies of Barrack Obama.
Identify and recognize the literary devices and the three defining elements of Obama’s 2004 DNC speech.
- appeal to hop
- finding common ground
- antithesis
