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Critical sociological approaches focus on the influence of power structures on media, particularly the ideological messaging of media gatekeepers, the circulation of damaging stereotypes in the media, and the effects of turning communications into commodities.
Jul 27, 2011 · Introduction. Culture is the symbolic-expressive dimension of social life. In common usage, the term “culture” can mean the cultivation associated with “civilized” habits of mind, the creative products associated with the arts, or the entire way of life associated with a group.
Jul 31, 2019 · This chapter examines the various ways in which the concept of culture has been understood in sociology and in cultural studies. The centrality of this concept to nineteenth-century sociology, in several of its forms, is outlined, along with its influence on some...
Jul 27, 2011 · The name “biosociology” covers a wide range of topics, from microsociological to macrosociological, with the unifying feature being an acknowledgement of the role of biology in human social life.
This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology, demonstrating how insights from the study of cultural objects and their mechanisms of meaning-making deepen our theories of culture in action, culture and cognition, and the production and reception of culture.
Oct 8, 2020 · A core question for sociology today is whether these two premises—about how social reality is maintained and social knowledge produced—still hold in a world characterized by intense reliance on digital media.
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