The information which we get and then pass on is often screened via unknown people and mass communication technologies
Transformation over time
Social relations - media as human interaction - how we communicate with, relate to, understnad (or fail to) ourselves and other. Relationship between individuals = society.
Functionalism
As the world gets more populated with people there is a need to a) circulate information within expanding communities; b) encourage local, national and global identities; c) create and maintain allegiances (e.g. Nation or the Government)
1 of 3
Plato - student of Socrates
Plato looked at the Republic
The origins of an idea of knowledge, citizenship and of mediation
Attempted to draw a roadmap to an ideal state in order to solve a problem.
2 of 3
Individual desire & communal good
People want to follow their own rules and desires, hence why sometimes people deviate
Society easily descends into chaos (Use mods and rockers as an example here)
To create the polis we much discourage animal desire and encourage critical thinking
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