Explain how media coverage about social conditions is essential to defining social problems, but can also perpetuate stereotypes.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Media coverage is an essential part of the construction of social problems, so claims-makers want the attention of these sources.
2. Depending on how educated individual reporters, bloggers, or writers are about a given social condition, they may rely on their own narrow understanding of and opinions about the condition, paying little attention to social context and the complexity of the problem.
3. In other words, reports may rely heavily on stereotypes media actors have about groups of individuals most negatively impacted by a social problem (e.g., those who live in poverty are “lazy” or those who are divorced “don’t put enough effort” into their relationships, etc.).
4. In turn, stereotypes can be perpetuated in the essential media coverage of a social condition.
Learning Objective: 1.4.1 Analyze why concrete solutions to social problems can be difficult to develop.
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