Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic pressure (maximum during one heart beat) over diastolic pressure (minimum in between two heart beats) and is measured in millimeters of mercury , above the surrounding atmospheric pressure (considered to be zero for convenience).
social/organizational/cultural context. It sees words as symbols interpreted in context. Mead (1934) and Blumer (1972) stressed communication as symbolic interaction that created meaning and oneâs sense of both self and society. Discourse analysis is an extension and elaboration of the contextual perspective.
2 Conflict Perspective Carl Marx, an 18th century sociologist, was one of the original theorists to develop a conflict perspective on how society functions. Following Marx was Ralph Dahrendorf, 19th century, post beginning of capitalism, who developed the theory further (Holmes et al, 2007).