...1. If you watched the news today you were one of many viewers across the provinces or even the country. Watching the news is the biggest form of mass media in our society today. Mass media is any form of media that’s purpose is to influence an audience on a topic. Advertising uses mass media on a daily basis to try and convince us to buy their products, whether it’s in the form of magazines or radio and television. Because of mass media, a lot of products that would get no exposure, get a lot and keep companies afloat. As an example, think about Christmas time, and the advertisements aimed at children, businesses flourish because of this form of mass media advertising. The internet has revolutionized media, thanks to the internet, computers, and TV stations all working seamlessly together, students attending school now know well ahead of time whether school is closed during bad winter weather. Before they had to listen to the radio which usually wasn’t as up to date with school closing information as TV news stations now are today. One prime example of how much our society depends on mass media for news was during the tragic events of September 11. TV’s across the country were tuned in to hear the latest breaking news with people tuned into the news for months after 911. The internet is probably the newest and one of the most widely used forms of mass media at the present time. The internet offers users the ability to download, stream...
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...Feminist essay A feminist is someone who believes that women are oppressed in today’s society. Feminist can be male or female. There are many types of feminist theses all have different beliefs on the cause and solution to women’s issues. A few of these types are: Marxist feminists: Marxist beliefs is that the cause of women’s oppression in society Is capitalism. This is due to the fact that the family reiterates the capital system whereby the proletariats do all the work for the bourgeois who profit from their work. The proletariat are not aware of this due to false class consciousness which is where they are unaware of what is happening. The bourgousi maintain this to avoid a revolution. Marxist feminist say the solution to this is a revolution to a communistic society. Mitchell a Marxist feminist said that women should be freed from their domestic responsibilities! He believed by doing this the women could pass on her roles to other agencies such as education and cleaners to allow her the freedom to do as she wishes in whatever domestic and relationships she chooses. Criticisms of Marxist feminist are that they assume all families are stereotypical nuclear families (biological mum, dad and kids) by doing this they are ignoring family diversity since they don’t account for other family types such as bean pole (where a family have one child who goes on to have one child and this continues) . Also radical feminist criticize Marxist feminist as they believe the cause and...
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...Examine the ways in which feminist sociologists have contributed to our understanding of family Many of the contributions to this debate have come from radical feminists who have tended to focus on the following aspects of relationships: How domestic roles are divided between men and women, the nuclear family as an ideological construct and domestic violence. Femenism is a sociologicalpersctive and political movement that focuses on womens oppression and how to end it. There are several types of feminism,and they differ in term of what they see as the cause of womesn oppression and the ways to tackle it. Delphy and Leonard studied mainly working-class nuclear families between the 1950s and 1980s. They argue that the type of work women do in the family is the primary cause of their oppression. For example: 9 out of 10 of the households they studied had a male head of household as the main decision maker, with the women and children being defined as his dependents or helpers. The male head of household was the only one earning a wage. The wife, and maybe older children too, did unpaid work in the house whilst relying on him for financial security also even when the wife did paid work, she was still expected to do the vast majority of the domestic labour. Willmott and Young’s research, conducted mainly in the 1950s to 70s, can be used to criticise the work of Delphy and Leonard. Their research found that: In 1973, Willmott and Young were optimistic about the prospects of...
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