Sociology B Outcome 2 Assessment Task
Write an essay of approximately 2,000 words to the following question:
`According to pluralists, the media reflect society: Just as there is diversity in society, so there is diversity in media content.
Because the media reflect society in this way, they are unlikely to have much effect’. (Trowler, cited in Haralambos and Holborn (2000) Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, 6th ed, p834)
Explain and evaluate this statement by comparing the pluralist position competing sociological perspectives of the mass media.
In your answer, you must:
• Explain and evaluate at least three contrasting sociological theories
• Explain and evaluate at least three contrasting sociological studies as evidence to inform conflicting theories/opinions/arguments
• Explain the similarities and differences between at least three contrasting sociological theories
