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Popular Culture and the Mass Media, Sociology of

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Cultural studies; Media studies; Sociology of communication; Sociology of culture

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The sociology of popular culture and the mass media studies the relationship between mass communication and society, using the methods traditionally established in the sociological analysis and their variation within the so-called media and cultural studies. The media, conceived at the same time as framework and content of popular culture, are often analyzed in the general frame of the cultural processes. In the academic research, an important role has been played by the study of the identity dimension of cultural consumption and, more generally, by the research upon the relationships between communication and popular culture.

The most influential scientific handbooks agree in identifying the emergence and development of the discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A symbolic date can be represented by the 1900s Great Universal Exhibition of Paris, when the...

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  1. CMCS – Department of Political Sciences, LUISS University, Viale Romania, 32, 00197, Rome, Italy

    Prof. Michele Sorice

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Sorice, M. (2013). Popular Culture and the Mass Media, Sociology of. In: Runehov, A.L.C., Oviedo, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1322

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