POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mass Media, Class Consciousness, Antithesis
8 May 2017
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A political vision of how the world works and how it should work, a shared blueprint of political issue based futures. Underlying attitudes of a population to such issues as political community and authority. Political socialization is a big factor of how ideas spread. Values of peers and family are key because they talk. Religion can be hard to sway but can be potent as a linkage. School works in a doctrinal way in some places, but it also can reinforce national identity and values. Workplace socialization, often linked to labor unions and class solidarity where large industries develop a working class consciousness and identity binding classes together. Mass media, despite state censorship and control in some places. Internet and social media often gives ways to circumvent this. Media has become more personalized and reinforcing of ideas, which allows for ideological echo chambers.
