Communication and Culture

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Karl Marx
Argued that the upper classes create a dominant ideology. The media plays a major role in transmitting this ideology to the masses as if it is the 'norm' through education, government and the law.
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Althusser
People are socialised into the dominant ideology through families, education and church – the ‘ideological state apparatuses’.
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Erving Goffman
We are constantly performing. These personas change depending on who we are with and in what enviroment we are in.
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Matthew Arnold
Culture is needed in order to control the masses.
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George Ritzer
Proposed the term 'McDonaldization' to explain fast-food culture
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People are socialised into the dominant ideology through families, education and church – the ‘ideological state apparatuses’.

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Althusser

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We are constantly performing. These personas change depending on who we are with and in what enviroment we are in.

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Culture is needed in order to control the masses.

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Proposed the term 'McDonaldization' to explain fast-food culture

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