Outline and discuss some of the differences between the terms “media” and “culture”. Do the terms share anything in common? Name: Kelly Pointer Student Number: 110154860 Word Count: 1166 Both the terms “media” and “culture” are ambiguous and therefore it will always be subjective to define the similarities and differences between them. In many ways the two terms are linked intrinsically as it is difficult to decipher the cause and effect that each have on one another. The vast expanse
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Sumera Ishtiaq Media Key words‚ Concepts‚ theories and generally everything you could possibly need to pass the exam… except the actual answer… M Media Language • Camera Shots: *extreme close up (parts of face) *big close up (most of face) *close up (face) *medium close up (shoulders up...) *medium shot *medium long shot *long shot *very long shot • Camera angles: *low angle shot (looking up) *high angle shot (looking down) *panning left *panning right *birds eye
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study on everything humans do i.e. health care‚ immigration‚ environmental Looks at variables contributing to where a person is in society Sociological Theory: Why start with theory? Theories provide us with frameworks to view society Antonio Gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist We already use our intellects to explain how society work The Nature of Social Life: Sociologists work to organize peoples daily lives and schedules Social life involves all things we do without
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Thinking Sociologically From: Will Keenan Social Conflict Perspective Discussion Themes: Conflict: Positive & Negative Aspects Is society inherently‚ inevitably and universally ‘conflictual’? 1. When is conflict ever productive of social benefits? 2. Identify areas of social conflict that have wider ethical significance. Further Readings Follow-Up: Articles by: David F. Walsh Structure/Agency‚ pp. 8-33; Fran Tonkiss continuity/Change‚ pp. 34-48; and Don Slater
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interested in the way in which social change can occur‚ particularly in sudden and revolutionary ways. However‚ there are differences between Marxists especially over the way which social change can come about. For example‚ humanistic Marxists like Gramsci give a greater role to the conscious decisions and actions of human beings than do structural Marxists like Althusser‚ for whom social change comes as the product of changes within the structures of society. One of the key ideas of Marx was historical
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intellectual dominance in the form of normalised ideologies (Gramsci‚ 1988‚ pp 193-4). Birmingham school scholars utilised the concept of hegemony in explaining the nature of working-class youth sub-cultures in terms of a resistance to hegemony. They saw this class as reacting
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Fo ’s view of society is explicitly Marxist‚ his ideas had been heavily influenced by the writings of Gramsci; an individual who argued that historical knowledge is essential in order to understand the progress that can be achieved . Fo argues that without this: "the very meaning of culture is undermined." Fo ’s narration serves to present his own Marxist approach
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THE MEIJI RESTORATION AND LATE QING REFORMATION: AN ANALYSIS OF OUTCOMES. Before Western incursion in South East Asia‚ both China and Japan had enjoyed self-imposed isolation from the rest of the world. Whereas China had limited its contact to the outside world to limited trade at a few ports—a system known as the “Canton” system‚ Japan‚ however‚ had completely shut itself to the outside world—an attempt to stay foreign influence on its radical feudal political system. This brought significant
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political economy. University of Chicago Press: London. Skirekk‚ S.N. (2005:3). Dysfunctional Culture: The inadequacy of cultural liberalism as a guide to major challenges of the 21st century. University press of America: Maryland. Stevens‚ J. 2007. Antonio Gramsci.
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5 (a) Explain the factors that influence the content of the news. The mass-manipulative model argues that the content of the mass media is largely controlled and determined by members of ruling class‚ with the object of using the mass media to maintain their control over the proletariat. The do this either by diverting them from seeing the class relations of a capitalist society for what they are‚ or by portraying any groups who challenge bourgeois control as sinister‚ dangerous and misguided
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