| Social Science and Journalism, in Reflexive Point of View |
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Dong-il Kim, Si-yoon Lee, Kyung-man Kim |
| 성찰적 관점에서 본 저널리즘과 사회과학 |
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김동일, 이시윤, 김경만 |
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| Abstract |
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This article examined what the proper relationship is between social science and mass media, and what the empirical Korean situation is through the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Today s all academic disciplines make its own identity through acquiring scientific achivement by its speciality which is such discipline has been developed, and communicating it. Bourdieu asserts that sociology, as a science, not only have to hold scientific speciality, but also to disseminate produced knowledge to public audience through proper relationship with journalism. Existence of sociology has dialectic relationship between autonomy as discipline itself and communication with public, and that the way of make relation with journalism is central element that defines how relationship with public is. Especially, for Bourdieu, dissemination of knowledge which isn t based on autonomy of sociological field is regarded harmful both to sociology and to journalism. In this regard, this study had two empirical research based on Bourdian perspective to examine Korean sociology-journalism relationship. First is research about sociologist s comment citation pattern on news articles of The Hankyorae and The Chosun. In this place, research revealed that sociology which is represented on two newspapers has been unilaterally molded by each media’s position and their interests in the social space. In both newspapers, sociologist s comment citation was concentrated on several particular sociologists, and this could hardly be seen as being based on objective knowledge produced by professional research in the sociological field. Second is a survey analysis which is questioned to undergraduate students who major in sociology to find out the route for acquiring academic information. In here, research revealed the fact that students who are more interested in academic information than others inclined to acquire large amount of information through media, especially printed media. Consequently, it could be concluded that unprofessional comments which is monopolized and mass-produced by a handful of sociologists hardly provide objective knowledge about sociological field to students, and also that this phenomena could harass the legitimate hierarchical structure of academic recognition in the field. |
| Key Words:
Pierre Bourdieu, journalism and social science, relative autonomy of field, crisis of sociology, citation, junior scholar |
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