Research on television and violence in terms of structural functionalism

The main objective of this research is to provide a functional model of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) mass media for society sections’ anger management on the basis of rational approach. The findings of this research have been extracted using the multiple grounded theory. Ten faculty members in the fields of organizational behavior management, media management, psychology, sociology, communications, and managers who have at least 10 years of management experience in the field of mass media have been selected through targeted sampling and based on a snowball method and have been interviewed in-depth Semi structured. The data obtained through open, axial and selective coding were interpreted. The findings of the research show that television in the managing of violence has the capacity to perform three functions of critical accountability, education of legitimate aggression and learning to overcome violence, and to play five disfunctions in institutionalizing violence in people's attitudes and behavior, promoting personal and ethnic fanatical frameworks, promoting violence As a means of recreation, the transfer of anti-values ​​related to violence and the perception of the lack of justice in society and the promotion of violence as a tool to overcome this perception.