“What do we mean by all social worlds are mediated? DD308 Making social worlds -“

The idea that social worlds are mediated may be understood through the process of translation.  Carter et al (2008, p.7) points out that meaning in our social worlds is created by following ‘the translations that are made as one entity turns into another’.  Carter et al (2008 p7) illustrates that through the use of language our social worlds become influenced by ‘social, cultural and material factors’.  Translations from one language to another often transpires misunderstandings of connotative words which can be different in meaning from one language to another….(short extract)