The Sociology of Communication and Mass Communication Research: tradition and current

The Sociology of Communication, after a long century, has crossed the doorstep of XXI with theoretical and methodological strength and empirical researches. Although the debates about methods maintain, a lot of researchers continue working about the determinants and the objectives from communicators, messages, technologies influences, audiences, social effects and especially about the social networks. This enrichs the career initiated by the American Mass Communication Research and by the European Sociology of Communication. The theoretical and methodological contributions from the discipline to Sociology are result of this assignment research and the numerous researches published in journals of Sociology and Communication. In the next pages, we try to base and to demonstrate these announced results of the research by a critical approach to the means theories, the analysis of the social and media reality and the constant reflection about the new events.