SOCIOL 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Talcott Parsons, Anti-Globalization Movement, Harold Lasswell
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Review of theoretical perspectives: emile durkheim, structural functionalism (talcott parsons) The functionalist perspective on the institution of mass media (harold. Lasswell and charles wright: karl marx, neo-marxism. No, they would be interested in content that is business friendly and provides a nice fit with their product: the conservative perspective ignores the heavy presence of conservative views in news coverage. The critical perspective on ideology in news media: defining the news, immediacy, personalization. As a result, the news media focuses on the present. The news media deal with causes but to the limited extend they almost always deal with causes at the individual level. They do not deal with causes at the structural level. The causes are at the individual level: example: union members who are greedy workers who want more wages. News coverage does not deal with the structural level despite that being where the cause is.