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Jun 18

2011

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Tags Manuel Castells Mass Communication Research Paul Lazarsfeld Two-step flow of communication

The two-step flow of communication

The processes of social mobilization against the crisis and against the measures taken by policymakers that have occurred in Spain, the Arab countries (especially Egypt), Greece or other Mediterranean countries offer an opportunity to review the hypothesis of the two-step flow of communication from the point of view of both its continuity and its diversity, and they suggest that this process could be the inverse of that which is indicated by the original studies.

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Oct 08

2010

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Reading Bourdieu

One of the best sociologists of all times, Pierre Bourdieu is also one of the least understood. Many attribute this to his difficult writing style. Others say that social science is very difficult: if we start from the premise that we think we know how the social world operates, it is not surprising to see that when someone explains the complexity of the social world, we do not understand anything. It is because the things explained are so strange and so different from how we think they are that we offer a brutal resistance.

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