Quick-fire questions

said that Media Moguls are more interested in money than the messages their media sends

Whale

coined the phrase 'the cereal packet family'

Edmund Leach

said that new media has made the world like a 'shrunken global village'

McLuhan

campaigned for 'apprenticeships for the elderly'

Altmann

said that women 'naturally belong with children'

Weber

said childhood is disappearing

Postman

the ideological state apparatus

Althusser

social class is dead as a concept

Pakulski

gave us the cricket test

Tebbit

coined the term 'McDonaldisation'

Ritzer

talked of 'toxic childhood'

Palmer

said that Meritocracy is a myth

Bowles and Gintis

'fewer and fewer companies control what we hear, see and read’

Williams

the number of companies controlling British Media is falling

Curran

employed women do two-thirds of domestic labour in a relationship

Durrant

said 'inequality is necessary'

Davis and Moore

assimilation is dangerous

Malik

the middle class are exploited, but exploit the working class in a similar way

Ohlin-Wright

journalists won't risk their careers by publishing stories that hurt their owners

Miliband

some British women want nothing more than to exist on benefits

Murray

people have lost confidence in society and their future

Jameson

BME crime is used as a distraction so that people miss the real criminals of the world - the rich

Hall

high culture and popular culture has become blurred in the Postmodern world

Strinati

we live in a 'risk society' where people no longer feel safe

Giddens

all men have the potential to rape

Kelly and Radford

children are shown to be different or deviant by the media

Neustatter

explained ethnic inequality in terms of class, status and party

Rex and Tomlinson

parliament is governed by old, white males

Rainbow Murray

suggested the media now has a 'participatory culture'

Jenkins

gave us the theory of 'Othering'

Bourdieu

said that basic health and safety and workers rights had fought off a Marxist revolution

Poulantzas

said that society is fragmented and people no longer share values

Baudrillard

gave us preference theory

Hakim

gave us the concept of consumption cleavage and dependency culture

Saunders