Scholars taking the critical approach to communication try to uncover hidden or explicit power within a societal group. Explain why this is important to the study of communication.

What will be an ideal response?

Oppression and advantage are transacted or exercised through communication, as
well as through other means. Some groups of people have greater opportunities to
express and convey their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, while other groups of
people are repressed and have limited opportunities to be heard or recognized. The
critical approach to the study of communication assumes that there is a built-in structure
in society that gives advantage to one set of people rather than another, and it seeks to
identify the hidden but formidable symbolic structures and practices that create or
uphold advantage, inequity, or oppression of some groups in favor of others.