Transcript Diapositiva 1

DATE
Feb. 23, 2015
AGENDA
Senior Project
Checkpoint #1 –
Review criteria for
resubmission
Senior Project
Checkpoint #2
Discuss Satire in
BNW and
established
mechanisms of
social control
Human Genetic
Engineering Debate
Take one of each handout (2)
from the front desk. Take out a
highlighter and writing utensil.
REMINDERS
Senior Project
Checkpoint
#2: Sunday in
turnitin.com
HOMEWORK
LAST CLASS:
Read BNW chapters 4-9
3+ sticky notes per chapter.
Ch. 1-3
Review and
Senior
Project
DO NOW
NEXT CLASS:
LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
Explore the ethicality of human
genetic engineering and its impact
on the future.
Forms of
social
control:
Modern
Propaganda
Checkpoint #1: Personality Test Reflection
DATE
Feb. 27, 2015
AGENDA
• DO NOW
quickwrite
• “Social Control”
lecture
• Interview with
Huxley – The
Mike Wallace
Interview 5/18/58
• Reflection on
today
DO NOW
The motto of the World State is “Community,
Identity, Stability.” What motto might
characterize contemporary American society?
In the World State, one way social control,
and thereby stability, is maintained, is through
propaganda. How does our contemporary
society compare/contrast to the World
State in this respect?
HOMEWORK
Read BNW chapters 4-9
3+ sticky notes per chapter due
Tuesday, March 3rd.
REMINDERS
Senior
Project
Checkpoint
#2: Sunday in
turnitin.com
LAST CLASS:
Exploring the
ethicality of
human
genetic
engineering.
NEXT CLASS:
LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
Explore the use of propaganda as a
method of social control looking at
Huxley’s perspective from 1958
versus the 21st Century.
Continue
discussion on
propaganda.
• It is defined as the regulation of individual and group
behavior in an attempt to gain conformity and
compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or
social group.
• All societies have ways to promote order, stability and
predictability in social life. Without social control,
social life would be unpredictable, even chaotic.
• There are two broad types of social control:
– Internal (Informal)
– External (Formal)
• Lie within the individual, and is developed during
socialization. You are practicing internal social
control when you act according to your conscience,
i.e. you do something because it is the right thing to
do.
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Culture: customs, norms, mores.
Family
Peers
Group affiliations
• External rules enforced by
government to prevent the
establishment of chaos or
break down of social
bonds.
– Laws
– Law enforcement
– Court system
– Prisons
• Societies reinforce norms and rules through
sanctions (systems of reward and
punishments).
– Positive sanctions (eg. smile of approval, awards, raises)
are used to encourage conformity.
– Negative sanctions (eg. criticism, fines, imprisonment) are
intended to stop socially unacceptable behavior.
• Act of violating a social norm is called
deviance.
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Family
Peers
Education
Mass Media
Culture
Television shows, movies,
popular music, magazines,
Web sites, and other aspects
of the mass media influence
our political views; our tastes
in popular culture; our views
of women, people of color,
and gays; and many other
beliefs and practices.
Average Number of Hours of
Television Watched Daily
The propaganda model seeks to explain the behavior of
news media operating within a capitalist economy. The
model suggests that the mass media often serves as a tool to
manufacture consent, operating on unchallenged premises
that serve the narrow interests of political and economic
elites.
As Noam Chomsky maintains, “Any dictator would admire the
uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”
From “Brave New World Revisited”, 1958
The Mike Wallace Interview
with Aldous Huxley
As you read…
• Annotate the text, focusing on ideas
that connect with “social control”
• Huxley’s beliefs about the society in
which he lived (it was 1958 when this
interview took place)
• Places you agree or disagree with
Huxley
• Textual connections
• Connections to today’s society
The Mike Wallace
Interview was a
national television
show that aired from
1957-1960
The Mike Wallace Interview
with Aldous Huxley
1. In the 1958 interview, Huxley describes
the experts of Madison Avenue who
control the advertising of radio and
television. What or who do you think
are the equivalent “Mad Men” of 2015?
2. We see in the interview that Huxley
believes that reaching children is a vital
step to controlling and manipulating the
population. How does he show this in
Brave New World? Do you agree with
him? Why or why not? Use examples
from our contemporary society to support
your reasoning.
The Mike Wallace
Interview was a
national television
show that aired from
1957-1960
This graphic updated in 2013
E!, Oxygen, USA,
Telemundo
Hulu
Nickelodeon,
SpikeTV, VH1
TNT, TBS, TCM,
Cartoon Network,
Adult Swim
CNET, Last.fm, TVGUide.com
This graphic updated in 2013
• Comcast (NBC/Universal) is set to purchase Time
Warner (CNN, HBO, Time Magazine, Warner Bros) first publicly announced on February 13, 2014
• The acquisition is to take the form of a stock
swap estimated at the time of announcement to be
worth about $45.2 billion.[2]
• Comcast began the regulatory review process of the
deal by filing a public interest statement at the Federal
Communications Commission on April 8, 2014,[3] is
currently in the process of obtaining permission from
both the FCC and United States Department of
Justice to complete the acquisition.
As of January 2015 a decision is expected in the first
quarter of 2015.[4][5]
Graphic updated in 2012
Graphic updated in 2012
Graphic updated in 2012
Graphic updated in 2012
Graphic updated in 2012
Do you believe that U.S. Corporations manipulate
the masses to shape their perceptions and personal
ideologies to conform to the dominate class?