Discussion 3 | Social Science homework help
- The problem that Sternheimer find with linking media to violence is that it is complementary to the American focus on individualism, where people tend to consider an individual’s behavior as stemming only from personal options instead of social forces. To support her perspective, she also quoted Freedman’s evaluation of study published in English that explored the media-violence connection and the conclusion that “the evidence…is weak and inconsistent, with more non-supportive results than supportive results”. For this reason, she suggests other alternative approach which is to study violence before studying media. As the media plays a role in making the public think that violence may be more common than it appears, particularly via action movies, music, first-person shooter video games, etc, they can influence people’s thoughts, tastes, values and beliefs. However, such personal interest and participation with violence media are far more complicated than just a cause-effect relationship. Finally, Sternheimer suggests that it is noteworthy that the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality is a key indicator of psychosis in adults, but many seem to accept this as a natural condition of childhood and even adolescence.
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