Youths - Success Flashcards
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Media - caused youths to believe that they need to succeed in our culturally-defined ways to be esteemed by society
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Caused them to develop a “win-at-all-cost” mentality
- proliferation of illegal consumption of drugs by athletes
- 75% of high school children admitted to cheating, vs 50% in 1990s
- drones have been used in exams in China
2
Q
Increased cheating
SOCIAL CONTAIGON EFFECT - seen as a social norm
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- students can plagiarise written assignments without being caught; due to wealth of info on the Internet
3
Q
May place studies over traditional values like filial piety
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In an experiment by readers digest, citizens of developed countries are colder and less helpful than LDCs, values are also more eroded
