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Book 1990.0

Ideology and Modern culture

John B. Thompson

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Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

Social Polity Press 0745600816 Available

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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.

Identifier: 0745600816

Status: Available

Journal Article 1989

Erving Goffman’s sociology as a semiotics of postmodern culture

HEINZ-GÜNTER VESTER

In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.191

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.191

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Journal Article 1983

Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannelI: The Time of the Sign: A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture

Stanley E. Gray

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 3

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154-157

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 1981

Color naming by art students and science students: A comparative study

ANDRÉ VON WATTENWYL; HEINRICH ZOLLINGER

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.303

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.303

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Journal Article 1981

La théorie du signe à Port-Royal

P. SWIGGERS

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.267

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.267

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Journal Article 1981

Review article

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.317

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.317

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Journal Article 1981

The relation of logic to semiotics

JOHN N. DEELY

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.193

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.193

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Journal Article 1981

The semiotic of modern culture

JULIET FLOWER MACCANNELL

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.287

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.287

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