The Media-Deviance Nexus And The Media-Deviance Nexus

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The media has a huge influence on today’s culture and the norms of our society. The media-deviance nexus explains relationships between media and deviance, which helps to explain why media has the impact that it does (Bereska, 2014, pp. 108.). The influence of media is also demonstrated in the television show Friends (Bright, 1994). The media’s influence on sexual norms is huge, especially today because media focuses so much on the idea of sex.
Media-Deviance Nexus The media-deviance nexus contains five different relationships that exist between the media and deviance: media as a cause of deviance, media socially constructing deviance and normality, media is used to commit acts of deviance, media is where the deviance dance is played, and the media deviantized itself and can be subjected to the measures of social control (Bereska, 2014, pp. 108.). The idea that media constructs deviance and normality is a critical approach which assumes that the media influences culture and defines boundaries and social problems (Bereska, 2014, pp. 109). If the media has the power to influence culture and address social …show more content…

This idea was promoted because Joey, who was an actor, did an advertisement that helped to educate the public on VD. The idea of safe sex was also promoted through the constant talk of using condoms. In the show, two of the girls wanted to have sex with their boyfriends on the same night, but they only had one condom, so only one of them could have sex with their boyfriend. Another example of this is when there is an unplanned pregnancy, and the topic that condoms are only 99% effective came up, which got Joey to pull out a large number of condoms from his pocket in order to read them. Since Joey is known to have a lot of sex, this shows that when he does have sex, he is always

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