Steppenwolf

I Brian McNair, who got his PhD. in Sociology from University of Glasgow and now is working for QUT in Austria, specializes in school of media and sociology of journalism. His book, The Sociology of Journalism which had been published in 1998 is kind of a conceptual book that focuses on merely on the elements of journalistic outputs and examines them by two different approaches as liberal pluralist and marxist materialist. These two dimensions at the core of the discuss of the book are subsequently defined and detailed by the author as an aim to understand how the journalistic media works in liberal democrasies such as U.S.A. and UK, what media’s role in the central and East European emerging democrasies and how media conducts its own role in the oppressive regimes and on the other dimension, it works for enlighting what is the social components of the media on social indicators in the context of the form and contex. It refers to the social theory which shapes the last centu