Although this does not imply that audience accepts this kind of representation as a preferred reading, there is enough support to claim that dominant representations play a significant role in influencing people's perceptions of minority groups and that dominant news frameworks in particular help to structure perception of the key issues in race relations. Internationally Australians are represented as masculine, democratic, rational, moral, dynamic and progressive. ... And while the "masculine" cop shows suggest the crime "problem" can be solved by getting tough and cracking down, dayti...

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In the later social stage, people embrace a rational, scientific view of the world. ... Merton thought that the structure of society primarily restrains the free expression of man's fixed native impulses. ... Many psychologist measured deviance as an unlucky expression of the personality and underlined the index. ...

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