An Experimental Field Study

Loye, David; Gorney, Roderic; Steele, Gary I.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb02149.x

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“…6. For evidence that television programming is successful in transmitting values, as well as in influencing the behavior and emotions of adults, see Ball-Rokeach, Rokeach, and Grube (1984) and Loye, Gorney, and Steele (1977).…”

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Television, Individualism, and Social Capital

McBride¹

1998

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Students of political culture and political theory (Pool 1990; Postman 1985; Merelman 1984, 1989, 1991; Habermas 1975) hypothesize that values associated with individualism have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with distressing consequences for politics and governance. Putnam (1995), in an article that appeared in these pages, observes that there has been a decline of “social capital” in the United States since 1972 as well, as measured by the number of visits Americans make to family and friends, the number of organizations to which they belong, the amount of trust they report having in other people, and the amount of involvement they report in politics. Ehrenhalt, in his discussion of the tenure of the late Mayor Daley of Chicago, notes that the United States has changed from a society that reveres obedience, authority, order, and a closed political system, to one that reveres freedom, choice, and an open political system.To Americans of the baby-boom generation, authority will always be a word with sinister connotations, calling forth a rush of uncomfortable memories about the schools, churches, and families in which baby-boomers grew up. (1997, 85)It is not only the case that social capital has declined, but political capital, as measured by partisanship and confidence in the institutions of government, has also declined over the past several decades (Luttbeg and Gant 1995). If individualism is a causal factor in the decline of social and political capital, the relationship can be explained by the fact that individualism is by nature loose-bounded (Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky 1990); self-seeking behavior is the norm, as are self-negotiated relationships.

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Television, Individualism, and Social Capital

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1998

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“…behavior in particular, has been vexed by the problem for over thirty years (16,31,37,46). Another stumbling block in the study of media uses and gratifications is the "growing consensus that almost any type of content (or media) may serve practically any type of function" (45).…”

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“…Writes Rubin (48): "We need to observe more directly the audience in the process of using television" (p. 76). But because it is impossible to fully re-create the home viewing situation in the lab, the study of TV viewing must often be conducted "in situ, not in the laboratory" (5, p. 274; for examples, see 1, 3, 16, 29, 31,33,36,37). The research reported here responds to these concerns and employs Experience Sampling, a ]ournu1 of Communication, Summer 1986 method that allows the study of the total range of reportable moods, thoughts, and behaviors as they occur in normal daily experience.…”

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Television Use in Everyday Life: Coping with Unstructured Time

Kubey

1986

Journal of Communication

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“…The adult relatively nonexplicit magazines, such as Playboy, have a much wider circulation than the more explicit ("hardcore") sexual magazines and, therefore, if there is a significant increase in their violent sexual depictions, more people are possibly being exposed to such depictions. Malamuth and Spinner (1980) posited two major concerns for mass exposure to these types of material: (a) the possible modeling and disinhibitive effects exposure to such material may have on the public (Burt, 1980;Check & Malamuth, 1983;Donnerstein & Hallam, 1978;Loye, Gorney, & Steele, 1977); (b) that coupling sex with violence may condition observers to associate violent acts with sexual pleasures. If this were the case, men might be more likely to perceive women as masochistic and in need of male domination (Freud, 1938).…”

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