Social Occultation (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Social occultation occurs when a particular set of cultural values and beliefs combine with the operation of personal and mass media communication functions leads to 'lacunae', or blind spots. Intentional social occultation is the process of creating social invisibility while not completely denying the reality of a social circumstance, issue, or problem. Social occultation is a dynamic of social constructionism.n various circumstances, certain social sub-groups and situations may have attention deflected away; this deflection may be institutionalized in media bias. As a dynamic of political or social intolerance, when segregation is not possible or is not desirable for some reason, social occultation may be found in individual behaviors and in organizational policies.