communication culture and media

Running Head : Communication Culture and Media

Communication Culture and Media

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Communication Culture and Media

Human beings live in society and it has been the focus of all the social scientist and sociologist to examine the structures and its influences on the human being . The two most important constructs of any society is class and culture . The modern society most defining influence is that of media especially the electronic media . The faster means of communications and media has to a large extent mitigated the isolation

br of the communities . As a result , a kind of universalization is in process . The apprehension of the people that media is governed by the interest of the powerful and it is not air facts but rather aversion of its own reality is not Human beings don 't exist in void they are constantly interacting with people and most of their interaction is within the community they are born and raised . Culture has been afield of study that has been extensively explored . Post modernist like Bordieu has tried to find a co-relation between culture and power (Houston n .p , 2002

Noted sociologist Banks defines culture as Most social scientists today view culture as consisting primarily of the symbolic , ideational and intangible aspects of human societies . The essence of a culture is not its artefacts , tools , or other tangible cultural elements but how the members of the group interpret , use , and perceive them . It is the values , symbols , interpretations , and perspectives that distinguish one people from another in modernized societies it is not material objects and other tangible aspects of human societies . People within a culture usually interpret the meaning of symbols , artefacts , and behaviours in the same or in similar way

Class is term which has been in use in the modern times with its implications of inequalities that exist in the society . The social class was being increasingly used by the Marxist ideology to represent the economic in equalities in the society which was fuelled by the industrial revolution . The difference in the culture , lifestyles power authority , education and religion are the structure that defines class (Banks et al ,n .p1989

Pierre Bourdieu is an acclaimed French sociologist who questioned the existentialist theory of the intellectual giants like Jean Paul Sartre .He even contended the structuralism of his time . These were the two opposing trends of his time in fact he provided a middle path between these two thought processes . Existentialist theory was a revolt against the abstract philosophy of the bygone era which had nothing to do with the suffering of the human being . It was amore realist approach which dealt with the choice , individuality subjectivity freedom and above all nature of human existence (Wolfrey ,n .p ,2000

One of the key concepts that Bordieu explored was the concept of habitus . He is not the first one to have done an in depth analysis of the social construct .The famous exponents of the concept are Aristotle Marcel Magus and...