Urban Journalists Group as a Kind of Social Stratifcation: Presentation and Struggles of Low-class in Everyday Life

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (8) : 154-176.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (8) : 154-176.

Urban Journalists Group as a Kind of Social Stratifcation: Presentation and Struggles of Low-class in Everyday Life

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Urban journalists are important organism that will contribute to city operation and also are organic members of the urban civil class. From social stratifcation as a starting point to study urban journalists group, it is a kind of non-mainstream research method, broking through the traditional academic context of functionalism and structuralism, focusing on the everyday life of ordinary citizen journalists and the stratifcation relations attached on it. This research is a kind of medium anthropology practice. In the stratifcation relationship of journalists, the identity change is complex along with the factors of celebrities, professionals and socialite. The power characteristics are divided into two aspects: occupational privilege and non-occupational privilege. As a community, urban journalists, though uniformly external warfare, are also composed of complex small sections. In everyday life, city journalists present the stratification feature through discourse, role playing and empathy. On this basis, they have some senses of resistance against the managers of media institutions and other professional groups in the same city.

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Social stratifcation / Urban journalists / Everyday life / Journalist community

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