COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Theodor W. Adorno, Ascribed Status, Organized Religion
6 May 2012
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The notion of celebrity has changed over time. Our conception of celebrity is a profoundly modern phenomenon. How we can think of celebrity"s as communicative, how we deal with celebrity"s and how they. The relationship between the rise of celebrity culture and new communication technologies mirror our values. The discussion about social status at the heart of any celebrity. We talk about celebrity in communication because it is a means by which we can think about communication and social status. A sociological interest in social status, how it is distributed in various contexts throughout time how people come to get the social status that they have. We have divided the world in different ways of higher middle and lower class. Classes have been divided by capitalism and they are the product of the royal family and the maintenance of power structure. These are all the ways in which people are divided in status.
