COMM 2102 Study Guide - Communicative Rationality, South African Class 19C 4-8-2, Frankfurt School

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Reason will provide the means to understand, organizes and control (a good) society: key concepts: Progress (all of which adapted into the sciences used to develop the technology in the industrial era) 19c critical theory: context: introduction of industrialism. Application of scientific thought/technology: marx and the political economists. What was their criticism with modernity : early 20c critical thought, context: large scale mass production, frankfurt school. What was their criticism with modernity : habermas, 2nd generation frankfurt school, the last modernist , believed that modernity was an incomplete project , looks at where the promise of modernity went wrong, context: 1950s and 1960s post war germany: nuremberg trials, citizen uprisings/protests, key questions: What is the role and limitations of the system? (government and social system: goal/purpose. Identify the (modern) means through which individuals can collectively determine their societal future he sees that individuals and citizens will direct what the society is: key literature. Structural transformation of the public sphere (1962)