How does the Liberal Democratic tradition and the Althusserian approach to culture theorise the notion of the individual and its relationship to the media?
-Distinguish the Liberal Democratic approach and the Althusserian approach.
-What conceptions of persons underpins the liberal-democratic view? In what ways is this an historically and culturally specific concept?
-What role is given to mass media in a liberal-democratic view?
-How does a liberal-pluralist or liberal-democratic view of mass society differ from other views of mass society?
-How does Althusser rethink ‘idealogy’ as constitutive?
-Distinguish the ‘ISA’ and the ‘RSA’
-What does Althusser mean by saying there is no idealogy except by the subjects and for subjects?
-How are culture and the media identified as relatively autonomous levels within a functional social totality, determined in the last instance by the economic?
-What understanding of social and cultural change does Althusser’s structuralist argument allow?
