Departmental Papers (ASC)

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

3-1960

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Copyright The University of Chicago Press. Reprinted from:

Communication Research and the Image of Society Convergence of Two Traditions. Elihu Katz. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 65, No. 5 (Mar., 1960), pp. 435-440

Publisher URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2774070

Abstract

Research on mass communications and on the acceptance of new farm practices may be characterized as an interest in campaigns to gain a acceptance of change. Despite their shared problems, these two fields have shown no interest in each other. However, very recently, as the student of mass communications began to revise his image of an atomized mass society, there have been signs of growing convergence. The attempt to take systematic account of interpersonal relations as relevant to the flow of mass communications has directed the attention of students of urban communication to rural sociology.

Keywords

rural sociology, mass communication



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Date Posted: 24 February 2010

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