SPS5068 Transformations in Media Culture and Society 1: Theoretical Conceptual and Empirical Appro

Java Python College of Social Sciences

School of Social and Political Sciences

MSc Media, Culture and Society

Transformations in Media, Culture and Society 1: Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Approaches

SPS5068

2024-25

Semester 1

Course Overview

This course will introduce you to key conceptual, theoretical and empirical work from the sociology of culture, media and cultural studies providing the foundation for a critical interrogation of contemporary trends in media and culture. By learning with ‘classic’ and ‘contemporary’ theorists students you be able to draw on, understand and critically interrogate a range of differing approaches to understanding media and culture. There will be a specific focus on how utilising these approaches can:

1.   Enable us to untangle and understand the role of media and culture in constituting, mediating and circulating values which legitimate and reproduce a range of intersecting structural inequalities relating to class, gender, race, sexuality and other forms of identity.

2.   Allow a critical insight into understanding the changing infrastructures and structures of media and culture, and how these enable and constrain social practice in relation to inequalities, politics, economy and culture.

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