In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. ... This stresses the ability of the fable as a literary genre to implicitly point to controversial concerns, which assigns the book its immortality....

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The influence of mass media as an agent of socialization was discussed by Kendall, Linden and Murray in their book Sociology in Our Times, as they pointed out that the subliminal brainwashing of the masses perpetrated by the media could be traced back to the imprinting of young children. ... This breeds an entire generation of people whose perception of the world is molded and shaped by the mass media they consumed, creating what Kendell and her colleagues would term to be "media culture" as they made note of certain observable behavioral traits that young people display due to the i...

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