SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Permafrost, Bioprospecting, Chronic Respiratory Disease
10 Aug 2016
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Mass communication: the transmission of messages by a person or group through a device to a large audience. Mass media: any medium designed to communicate messages to a mass audience. Every society needs to transcend what he called the problems of space and time. Media influence the ways in which individuals, societies and cultures perceive and understand their environments. Looks at the world as it"s frame of reference. Describes the worldwide exchange of money, goods and services as well as the socio-cultural changes that occur with increasing trade and human contact. Other countries are making conditions easier to multinational corporations to operate. Berlin wall separating east and west 1969-1989: separated families, if people tried to escape they were shot, motion censored devices were built underground. New global order increasingly defined according to countries" wealth or poverty. First, second, third world: ways of which economist and social scientists explain how the world works.
