对1970年代以来美国社会学两种权威期刊涉及传媒论文的考察

发布时间：2018-03-08 04:09

本文选题：社会学　切入点：传媒研究　出处：《新闻与传播研究》2015年02期 　论文类型：期刊论文

【摘要】："社会学界似乎对传播研究特别是传媒研究失去了兴趣",社会学门出身的美国传播学人卡茨(E.Katz)曾在《社会学为何抛弃传播》一文中慨叹传媒研究在1970年代以后美国社会学界的境遇。但检视这段时期《美国社会学评论》(ASR)和《美国社会学杂志》(AJS)这两种美国社会学权威期刊中涉及传媒的论文后可发现,被美国主流社会学界抛弃的传媒研究仅限于那些"向传媒自身提问"的传媒研究而已。这段时期美国主流社会学界的视线并未远离传媒,不过多数时候传媒只是他们解剖社会运动、追踪社会问题和舆论风向的材料来源之一。"向传媒自身提问"的传媒研究在1970年代初期的这两本期刊上曾昙花一现,之后便渐渐绝迹。这既与美国主流社会学界更重视家庭等恒久话题等研究旨趣有关,更与从社会学视角切入的传媒研究难以深挖田野材料、成本高昂等现实困难有关。
[Abstract]:"Sociology seems to have lost interest in the study of communication, especially in the media," said E. Katzh, an American communicator of sociological origin, lamenting the United States after the 1970s in "Why Sociology abandoned Communication." But a review of the American Sociological Review of this period and the American Journal of Sociology / AJSs), two authoritative American sociological journals dealing with the media, can be found. The media studies abandoned by the mainstream sociologists in the United States are limited to those that "ask questions to the media themselves". During this period, the attention of the mainstream social circles in the United States was not far from the media. Most of the time, though, the media are just one of the sources of material for them to dissect social movements, track social problems and trends in public opinion. Media research on "asking the media itself" was ephemeral in the early 1970s in these two journals. This is related to the fact that the mainstream social circles in the United States pay more attention to permanent topics such as family, and so on, but also to the practical difficulties, such as the difficulty of digging deep into the field materials and the high cost of media research from a sociological perspective.
【作者单位】：复旦大学新闻传播学博士后流动站;华南师范大学新闻与传播学系;
【基金】：2014年度国家社科基金青年项目“计划生育政策议题的中国媒体话语建构研究(1957-2013)”(项目批准号:14CXW043)的阶段性成果
【分类号】：C91;G206

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