Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong
by Cerulo,Karen A.Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1998-06-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
In the current information age, Americans are bombarded daily with stories and images portraying a rising tide of violence. Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content,Deciphering Violencedecodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts. The book identifies institutionalized forms of violent storytelling and raises new possibilities both for decreasing public tolerance of violence and increasing social control of the phenomenon.
Table of Contents
| New Thoughts on ViolenceViolence, Sequencing, and Meaning Implications of the Study Outline of the Book | |
| Conclusion | |
| Deciphering Violence Violence: The Identification Dilemma Beyond Identity Qualifiers | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Cognitive Order of Right and Wrong Sequencing Right and Wrong Sequencing Ambiguous Violence Beyond the News Seeing Right, Wrong, and Undecided | |
| Conclusion | |
| Institutionalizing Right, Wrong, and Undecided By the Book: Lessons on Storytelling Sequence Conventions in Broader Social Context | |
| Conclusion | |
| Audience "Readings" of Violence Tapping the Subject's Voice Findings | |
| Conclusion | |
| Practical Applications and Scholarly Implications Reviewing the Findings Sequencing and the Fight Against Violence Sequencing and Media Objectivity Sequencing and the Scholarly Study of Meaning | |
| Conclusion | |
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