From the symbolic interactionist perspective, explain the impact of allowing children to watch violence on television and/or play violent video games.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Symbolic interactionist explanations of violence begin by noting that human behavior is learned through social interaction. Violence, they state, is a learned response, not an inherent characteristic, in the individual.
2. Research by Bandura
3. Concept of situational approach, violence results from a specific interaction process, termed a “situational transaction”
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c. egalitarianism. d. patriarchy.
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Functionalist Perspective
What will be an ideal response?