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- Title
Naturalizing Social Class as a Moral Category on Swedish Mainstream Television.
- Authors
Jakobsson, Peter; Stiernstedt, Fredrik
- Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of how social class is constructed as a moral category on Swedish mainstream television. Practices of categorisation by the media is an important area of study since these practices are part of a process of co-construction of social categories that are offered to media users as cognitive tools and frames for navigating the social landscape. Based on a content analysis of television in Sweden, we show that the medium of television categorises people appearing on television along the social divisions of class and constructs class as a moral category, with a lower moral value assigned to the working class in comparison to the middle and upper class.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SOCIAL classes; TELEVISION broadcasting &; society; MASS media; CONTENT analysis; SOCIOCULTURAL factors
- Publication
NORDICOM Review, 2018, Vol 39, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
1403-1108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/nor-2018-0003