Everyday many individuals are being faced to different incidents in Iran which are being shared through the language of their own among the people who are grown up together and made a union called society. These happenings are defined as realities of life which is known in every basic culture. One of the ways to establish a link between people and a powerful topic to impress them is the way of the media presentation in advertisements and reports. A report is built upon an ideology which in culture of a society is defined correctly. However, presenting the reality of a society in reports cannot be acceptable to all the cultures due to factors such as meaning and power of it. It depends on how the meaning of reality is shaped within a large group of people. This essay will explain that reality is socially constructed and it is not what we can see through its reflection on our mind which is dependent on institutionalization , inequalities, presentation of ideologies.
Firstly institutionalization is an important factor in the implementation of how reality is invented. Reality is not constructed in individualistic activates. Reality is not what the world around people and the nature is reflecting through eyes. In fact reality is an ideology of acceptation of objects and subjects around us in terms of culture and meaning. People in a Iran have accepted each other because they are respecting the rules which is constructed in the way of their life by government, such as Hijab. These rules are LABELED Islamic values rather than actual Cultural values which are some sort of meanings that define for people what is advantageous for them and what is not and it has unveiled The reality. Reality is constructed within a Iran in terms of collectivism where an idea ( or even an ideology) has one meaning for everyone and this single definition is created a power in which no one will stand against it. Discourse, Media and Society, Page 174 is discussing that society as a largest group existed can make the believes, thoughts and ideas in the way that people can believe in meaning of it and build a power in which people are living according to it. In the other hand, people will believe and accept what is accepted by whole of the society not the individuals, which leads us to how reality is constructed. This meanings have institutionalized people and made them think and see things same as each other, this is the power of reality. A reports by helpline of Iranian Domestic Abuse Help line is representing an offer in which it welcomes people who have been abused by language to get emotional and psychological care. The picture of it shows how a person can abuse by language to someone else. In fact, in terms of Being in IRAN, this report/advertisement is telling that sexism exist and woman is the victim. This reality is accepted among large group of people in Iran and it has been institutionalized that verbal abuse is “BAD” and if you have affected by it you will be able to take help. But in fact this reality cannot be accepted in the way it shows in other societies. In many Islamic countries in which families and culture are constructed in context of Patriarchal a man is actually allowed to enforce his woman do what he demands whether its by physical violence or language violence. And it is not a crime or negative action to be reported and be in need of help. in fact the definition, meaning and message of this advertisement has no power in culture of Islamic countries to influence on them. When the culture that advertisement is built upon it does not exist in an society there is no power in that societies culture to define the meaning of it. So the reason behind such things, that are actually useless are to create a sense of security among people that also balances and spreads fear among them that they are indeed being watched.
Secondly inequalities is another factor in which reality is shaped in society. Inequalities in a society shapes meanings in which it creates a network among people that the culture can become meaningful in it. Inequality and difference, Media and Society, page 32 discuses society as a large group consist many smaller groups which are connected to each other and it creates competing among this groups that can be advantageous or disadvantageous and the three major division are class, gender and race. Classes in society has created a reality in which the power is shaped through it and the more classy people are the more reputation they can get for instance. Competition in this large network in terms of gender and race, due to the loud voice of individuals, the culture can get abused by individualistic thoughts. non equal rights between man and woman creates some challenges for the power of culture in the way that it’s meaning is created. same statements applies for different races. They create a grey area in which asserts that the reality which is exist in culture can be wrong by its wrong definition but the power of influence is low so it cannot be effective to change whole the reality at once.
Thirdly the presentation of media and ideologies is another factor to explain reality is socially constructed. People go through their everyday life and they share the facts that they have been through with their friends. but that is not the real world is, they are the realities that society and people of it want to be the reality. The meanings of every little happening in life is constructed in an invisible fact called ideology that make sense for people when they face it. For example, Media reports in Iranian TV do not show or present the real worlds; they construct and re-present reality, ,Media and society, page 35 is discussing that what is presented in any advertisement is not necessary a showcase of reality, in the other hand, it is presentation of reality but not directly, take for example that Rouhani claims Iranian people are happy, Iranian people are agianst America, or during protest 2009, Neda (A victim of gunshot) was not done by government. and it is just made to give us a sketch of what the reality is. In fact this sketch can make sense for people when the ideology is constructed within culture and if it has known for people ( got enough power ) then it would make sense to people. What people been through in their life from the start has created a reality for them in society by the gathering of all the known ideologies. A report is designed for a specific audiences of a society in which its meaning is covered by the power of an ideology in culture.
In conclusion, reality is not what every day we can see though our eyes in Iran. reality is constructed by the same thoughts of government and higher anchorites which has become a norm for everyone and if it is something else it cannot be accepted as a reality. Different people in a society are joined to smaller groups and created a challenge among groups that shaped the culture and affects what can be real for people. For example the fact that people have been trying to use Telegram Application as way to create chats and groups where they discuss about politics, but also in same time government tries to create a sense of fear that they are slowly approaching not to only filter use of it, but also summon admis of groups for further invistigations, (AS REPORTED BY BBC). This challenge should not exist or a form of previously created reality will lose its power. Ideology that is shaped thought the time has completed a book though its different meanings, a book called reality that is linked to culture of people. Everything in society is defined in terms of culture and the power of culture’s definition has created one reality for every person of that society. Advertisement and texts can make sense for people when that presented fact is exist within culture of that society and is seen as reality because the ideology if it, so the reality that exist in Iran is just creation of government itself.