The course covers a number of key traditions within contemporary social science, and how these traditions can be used in analyzing public relations. Starting point for the course is a number of sociological traditions and the theories, ideas and concepts streaming from their work. The course focuses on the development of public relations as a social phenomenon and how it can be understood in terms of economic, cultural, political and social conditions. Furthermore, we discuss what roles and functions public relations has if understood from organizational and societal perspectives.

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