Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Both statements are correct: society plays a key part in shaping the communication process, and communication is concerned with the production, distribution and formation of public knowledge in society.

Statement 1 holds because social norms, institutions and relations mould who speaks, through what channels and with what meanings.

Statement 2 holds because communication is precisely the machinery by which shared, public knowledge is created, circulated and settled across a community.

The two claims interlock, one showing society acting on communication, the other showing communication building society's common knowledge.

Together they present a two way bond in which the social and the communicative continuously make each other.

James Carey's ritual view frames communication as the very process of maintaining and constructing a shared social reality.