Paper 1 · Communication
UGC NET June 2023 (19.06.2023) Shift-I
The communicative structure, according to the Frankfurt School, that reflects the social order is called
ACustom
BPublic sphere
CConvention
DCulture ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Culture — The structure that reflects the social order is culture, so the answer is culture.
Explanation
★The structure that reflects the social order is culture, so the answer is culture.
★The Frankfurt School scholars analysed how communication shapes and reflects society.
★Thinkers like Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse focused on the rise of mass culture.
★For them culture is the communicative structure that mirrors the social order.
★They criticised how technology produced a sameness in cultural products.
★The public sphere is a related but different concept associated mainly with Habermas.
★Custom and convention are narrower social practices, not this reflecting structure.
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