| | Sociology and Philosophy Essays: TV & Violence |
 | | Belville claimed that "in 1947 television rounded that corner behind which it had lurked for so many years; 1948 will bring this medium sharply into focus as the world's greatest means of mass communication" (Schramm, 1948, p.127). |
 | | Because we are protective of our children, and because it is children who watch the most television and (presumably) the most of the violent cartoons, these studies have focused on children. |
 | | Not only because television violence is a reality, and aggression is a fact of life, but because an effective social psychology understanding of the relationship between television and behavior may help to not only reduce socially unacceptable aggression, but may actually enable us to increase socially desirable effects. |
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