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9780742528390

Mass Communication and American Social Thought Key Texts, 1919-1968

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    9780742528390

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    0742528391

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-03
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor and texture of the original works. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919--1968 1(12)
Part I: From Hope to Disillusionment: Mass Communication Theory Coalesces, 1919--1933
Introduction
13(8)
``The Process of Social Change,'' from Political Science Quarterly (1897)
21(4)
Charles Horton Cooley
``The House of Dreams,'' from The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909)
25(5)
Jane Addams
From Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
30(1)
Sherwood Anderson
From the Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921)
31(4)
Robert Ezra Park
Ernest W. Burgess
``Nature, Communication, and Meaning,'' from Experience and Nature (1925)
35(1)
John Dewey
``The Disenchanted Man,'' from The Phantom Public (1925)
36(6)
Walter Lippmann
``Criteria of Negro Art,'' from Crisis Magazine (1926)
42(5)
W. E. B. Du Bois
``The Results of Propaganda,'' from Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927)
47(4)
Harold Dwight Lasswell
``Manipulating Public Opinion: The Why and the How'' (1928)
51(7)
Edward L. Bernays
From Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929)
58(16)
Robert S. Lynd
Helen Merrell Lynd
``Communication,'' from Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1931)
74(17)
Edward Sapir
Part II: The World in Turmoil: Communications Research, 1933--1949
Introduction
79(12)
``Conclusion,'' from Movies and Conduct (1933)
91(4)
Herbert Blumer
``The Integration of Communication,'' from Communication Agencies and Social Life (1933)
95(3)
Malcolm M. Willey
Stuart A. Rice
``Toward a Critique of Negro Music,'' from Opportunity (1934)
98(4)
Alain Locke
From Technics and Civilization (1934)
102(4)
Lewis Mumford
``The Business Nobody Knows,'' from Our Master's Voice (1934)
106(4)
James Rorty
``The Influence of Radio upon Mental and Social Life,'' from The Psychology of Radio (1935)
110(6)
Hadley Cantril
Gordon W. Allport
``Foreword,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937)
116(2)
``Human Interest Stories and Democracy,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937)
118(6)
Helen MacGill Hughes
From The Fine Art of Propaganda (1939)
124(4)
Alfred McClung Lee
Elizabeth Briant Lee
``A Powerful, Bold, and Unmeasurable Party?'' from The Pulse of Democracy (1940)
128(6)
George Gallup
Saul Rae
``Democracy in Reverse,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1940)
134(2)
Robert S. Lynd
``Needed Research in Communication,'' from the Rockefeller Archives (1940)
136(3)
Lyman Bryson
Lloyd A. Free
Geoffrey Gorer
Harold D. Lasswell
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Robert S. Lynd
John Marshall
Charles A. Siepmann
Donald Slesinger
Douglas Waples
``On Borrowed Experience: An Analysis of Listening to Daytime Sketches,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941)
139(18)
Herta Herzog
``Art and Mass Culture,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941)
157(9)
Max Horkheimer
``Administrative and Critical Communications Research,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941)
166(8)
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
``The Popular Music Industry,'' from Radio Research 1941 (1942)
174(6)
Duncan MacDougald Jr.
From Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
180(2)
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
``Nazi Propaganda and Violence,'' from German Radio Propaganda (1944)
182(6)
Ernst Kris
Hans Speier
``Biographies in Popular Magazines,'' from Radio Research 1942--1943 (1944)
188(18)
Leo Lowenthal
``The Negro Press,'' from An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944)
206(4)
Gunnar Myrdal
``A Social Critique of Radio Music,'' from the Kenyon Review (1945)
210(5)
Theodor W. Adorno
``The Social and Cultural Context,'' from Mass Persuasion (1946)
215(3)
Robert K. Merton
``The Requirements,'' from A Free and Responsible Press (1947)
218(4)
Hutchins Commission
``Mass Media,'' from UNESCO: Its Philosophy and Purpose (1947)
222(2)
Julian Sorrell Huxley
``The Enormous Radio,'' from The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1947)
224(6)
John Cheever
``Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action,'' from The Communication of Ideas (1948)
230(12)
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Robert K. Merton
Table from ``Communication Research and the Social Psychologist,'' from Current Trends in Social Psychology (1948)
242(1)
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
``Information, Language, and Society,'' from Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
243(6)
Norbert Wiener
``Consensus and Mass Communication,'' from American Sociological Review (1948)
249(5)
Louis Wirth
``What `Missing the Newspaper' Means,'' from Communications Research (1949)
254(21)
Bernard Berelson
Part III: The American Dream and Its Discontents: Mass Communication Theory, 1949--1968
Introduction
263(12)
``Industrialism and Cultural Values,'' from The Bias of Communication (1950)
275(5)
Harold A. Innis
``Emerging from Magic,'' from Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1950)
280(13)
Hortense Powdermaker
``Storytellers as Tutors in Technique,'' from The Lonely Crowd (1950)
293(16)
David Riesman
Reuel Denney
Nathan Glazer
``Our Next Frontier . . . Transoceanic TV,'' from Look (1950)
309(1)
David Sarnoff
``Communication in the Sovietized State, as Demonstrated in Korea,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1951)
310(8)
Wilbur Schramm
John W. Riley Jr.
``The Consumer's Stake in Radio and Television,'' from Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television (1951)
318(10)
Dallas Smythe
``The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect: A Pilot Study,'' from American Sociological Review (1952)
328(10)
Kurt Lang
Gladys Engel Lang
``Technology and Political Change,'' from International Journal (1952)
338(5)
Marshall McLuhan
``A Theory of Mass Culture,'' from Diogenes (1953)
343(10)
Dwight Macdonald
``Sight, Sound, and Fury,'' from Commonweal (1954)
353(5)
Marshall McLuhan
``Between Media and Mass,'' from Personal Influence (1955)
358(6)
Elihu Katz
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
``The Theory of Mass Society: A Critique,'' from Commentary (1956)
364(9)
Daniel Bell
``Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance,'' from Psychiatry (1956)
373(14)
Donald Horton
R. Richard Wohl
``The Mass Society,'' from The Power Elite (1956)
387(14)
C. Wright Mills
``FDR and the White House Mail,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1956)
401(8)
Leila A. Sussmann
``Notes on a Natural History of Fads,'' from American Journal of Sociology (1957)
409(8)
Rolf Meyersohn
Elihu Katz
``Mass Communication and Socio-cultural Integration,'' from Social Forces (1958)
417(9)
Warren Breed
``Modernizing Styles of Life: A Theory,'' from The Passing of Traditional Society (1958)
426(8)
Daniel Lerner
``The Social-Anatomy of the Romance-Confession Cover Girl,'' from Journalism Quarterly (1959)
434(6)
George Gerbner
``The State of Communication Research,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959)
440(6)
Bernard Berelson
``The State of Communication Research: Comments,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959)
446(8)
Wilbur Schramm
David Riesman
Raymond Bauer
``What Is Mass Communication?'' from Mass Communication: A Sociological Perspective (1959)
454(3)
Charles R. Wright
``Social Theory and Mass Media,'' from Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (1961)
457(8)
Thelma McCormack
``Television and the Public Interest'' (1961)
465(7)
Newton Minow
``The Kennedy Assassination and the Nature of Political Commitment,'' from The Kennedy Assassination and the American Public (1965)
472(8)
Sidney Verba
``TV Overseas: The U.S. Hard Sell,'' from The Nation (1966)
480(5)
Herbert Schiller
``Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Societies,'' from Negations (1968)
485(10)
Herbert Marcuse
Afterword and Acknowledgments 495(4)
Other Readers and Historical Collections in American Mass Communication Study and Related Subjects 499(2)
Suggested Films 501(4)
Select Supplementary Reading List 505(4)
The Intellectual History of North American Media Studies, 1919--1968: A Selected Bibliography (Including Works Cited in Interpretive Essays) 509(10)
Credits 519(6)
Index 525(6)
About the Editors 531

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