Communication and Nation Building
Comparing US Models of Ethnic Assimilation and `Third World' Modernization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9848401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hemant Shah (0000-0002-6423-2383, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-181 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0016549203065002004 |
| OpenAlex | W2002095699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article compares two models of communication and nation building developed in the US. Daniel Lerner's model of communication and modernization, created in political and academic centers of the US from the 1960s onward, mirrors the thinking about communication and ethnic assimilation developed by Robert Park in the early part of the 20th-century US. Both models say an increase in shared characteristics among social groups and an increasing social homogeneity are a key to nation building. Both models require erasure of differences (in ethnicity, cognitive orientations, patterns of social interactions, etc.) for the creation of a cohesive, productive, just and affluent society. In both models various communication media assume an important role in providing information that facilitates key transformations in individuals and communities. By making this comparison, I want to reinforce the idea that ethnic minorities in the US and `Third World' populations assume similar positions in the thinking of western (white) nations and consider how, why and with what consequences certain types of knowledge created in one specific geopolitical and historical context are normalized and then deemed appropriate to explain phenomena in and create policy for different geopolitical contexts
Ethnic group · Geopolitics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
The policy sciences
The intellectual migration
Images, Myths and Alternative Geographies of the Third World
History of Development
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Race, Nation, and Citizenship
An Episode in the History of Social Research
Social Theory and Modernity
The Stages of Economic Growth
Communication for Development in the Third World-Theory and Practice
Ethnicity and social order
Ethnicity and development—An elusive relationship
The Passing of Traditional Society
Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II
Human Geography. Society, Space and Social Science
Encountering Development
Reflections on Communication and Culture
Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups With Particular Reference to the Negro
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |