social category

基本解释

Population Carrying Capacity Belongs To Social Category Or Natural Categoey?;
人口容量属于社会范畴还是自然范畴?。
The history of communication theory and research witnesses changing perspectives on audience: audience as target, social category, consumer, commodity, decoder, etc.
在传播研究中，人们的受众观念经历了多种视野的变迁，受众曾先后被视作靶子、社会类别、消费者、商品及解码者等等。
However, the "theory of social category" in the study of the audience takes the audience group as the unit to investigate the reaction of the audience in social group to the media.
而受众研究的“社会范畴论”则以受众群体为单位来考察特定的社会群体中的受众对媒介的反应。
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