CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Forces
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Don"t care about details, more important to apply. Exam is to evaluate understanding of the main ideas. Ie. what is one question someone in the sociopsychological tradition would ask about instagram? . Studies show how communication comes to have the meaning we associate it with now. Engineer is therefore invested with the mission to correct these inequalities by allowing the circulation of commodities. Grows out of positivist or empiricist epistemology. What we know is what we can obverse, can be measured. Readings address media effects and interpersonal/group communication. Readings show chronological evolution of tradition"s questions and concerns. Essay attempts to combine inductive and deductive modes of reasoning. The description of how people meet strangers. The way axioms combine to arrive at new insights. Essay is about media effects, seeks to bring psychology together wth sociology. How people arrive at individual actions in a social context.