Week 5 Media and Society Cont'

 A society is a very large group of people organized into institutions held together over time through formalized relationships. Nations, for example, are made up of formal institutions organized by law. Governments of different sizes, economic institutions, educational institutions, and others all come together to form a society.

By comparison, culture — the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of groups large and small — is not necessarily formalized. Culture is necessary for enjoying and making sense of the human experience, but there are few formalized rules governing culture.

This can be difficult for people to acknowledge. Shortly after the widespread dissemination of the telegraph, the radio, broadcast television and public internet access, some form of communication utopia was imagined or even expected. 

  • The telegraph collapsed space. 
  • Radio enabled instantaneous mass communication. 
  • Television brought live images from one side of the globe to the other for even larger mass audiences, 
  • internet access gave individuals the power to be information senders, not just receivers

So what does it all mean?
Often we are judgemental within our own "culture" or "subculture"

What about as culture is influenced by the economic and the political? 

Goodnight and Good Luck


Assignment for next Thursday, October 1. 

1. Do some background research on the TV show All in the Family. Ask older family members about what they remember about the show. Record your thoughts in your notebook with a puke. 


3. Write at least 500 words (Two pages Times New Roman Double Space) about the things you see and hear in the episode that surprise you. How have things changed? How might they be the same? 

4. This assignment will be in Canvas and will be uploaded into Canvas. 



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