Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong

Cerulo, Karen A.

ISBN 10: 0415917999 / ISBN 13: 9780415917995

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415917999
• ISBN 13: 9780415917995
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In the current information age, Americans are bombarded daily with stories and images portraying a rising tide of violence. Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content, Deciphering Violence decodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts. The book identifies institutionalized forms of violent storytelling and raises new possibilities both for decreasing public tolerance of violence and increasing social control of the phenomenon.

About the Author

Karen A. Cerulo is Associate Profess of Sociology at Rutgers University. She is author of Identity Designs:The Sights and Sounds of a Nation (1996) and co-author of Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through theSociological Eye (1997).