Media Representations: Part 1 – Traditional Marxism
June 25, 2015
Continuing the sociology of the media theme that began with moral and amoral panics, this series of posts looks at the idea of media representations
Continuing the sociology of the media theme that began with moral and amoral panics, this series of posts looks at the idea of media representations
This approach addresses the theoretical weaknesses of traditional Marxism by explaining media representations in terms of ruling class cohesion. The role of the media is
While the focus for all kinds of feminism is on how and why media representations contribute to female inequality, different approaches produce different forms of
Pluralist explanations recognise a variety of different media representations of categories such as gender. They also emphasise the importance of the role of the audience
While Marxist and Feminist perspectives generally discuss media representations in terms of how and why they misrepresent particular groups, Baudrillard (1995) argues representations shouldn’t be
This – and two subsequent posts – looks critically at the concept of moral panic as both a component of deviance amplification and as how they
While Part 1 introduced deviancy amplification and looked at interpretivist concepts of moral panic, this post outlines an alternative, neo-Marxist, perspective on the latter. As
The Teacher’s Toolkit grew out of discussions and contributions on the old TES Psychology forum and while it’s been through a number of revisions this,
While the two previous posts looked at moral panics from two different perspectives (“from below” in the case of interpretivist approaches and “from above” in