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Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between crime and the mass media.
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... Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between crime and the mass media There has been a lot of debate in sociology regarding what consequences the mass media has on the rate and/or production of crime in society. (The mass media being avenues of communications that reaches out to the masses.) Functionalist concerns as regards to the study of deviance can be traced back to Emile Durkheim; that societies are held together by a value consensus. There is always the possibility of a collapse in society if values aren't constantly reaffirmed and passed on from one generation to the other; therefore maintenance of values is functional of society. Functionalists see the mass media as an agency of socialisation; that integrates its audience into the universal norms and values of society. They see the mass media as giving us what we want, and caters for our needs. Therefore has nothing to do as regarding to
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