Entry:

Gerbner, George, "Television Violence: The Power and the Peril," in Transforming Powers: Gender, Race, and Class in Mass Media Studies, Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (eds.). In press. A slightly different version appears as "Television Violence: the Art of Asking the Wrong Question," in World & I: a Chronicle of Our Changing Era.


Abstract:

TV violence is pervasive and it has an impact on how people think and act in their real lives.

GSS Years:

1975, 1977, 1980, 1982

Other Data Sets:

Harris 1985; Gallup 1990; Times-Mirror 1993

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
TVHOURS

HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV

POLVIEWS

THINK OF SELF AS LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

INCOME

TOTAL FAMILY INCOME

PRESTIGE

RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

PARTYID

POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION

ATTEND

HOW OFTEN R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES

UNION

DOES R OR SPOUSE BELONG TO UNION

XNORCSIZ

EXPANDED N.O.R.C. SIZE CODE

RADIOHRS

HOURS PER DAY LISTENING TO RADIO

NEWS

HOW OFTEN DOES R READ NEWSPAPER