Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media by René Garrido V.

Instructions

Rene_Garrido — 2025-09-29 19:48:56 UTC

Choose the perspective you agree the most. (Functionalist, Conflict, Feminist, or Interactionist).
Post your idea or analysis about mass media under that perspective.
You can read and get inspired by your classmates’ posts!

Rene_Garrido — 2025-09-29 19:52:52 UTC

Media entertains us, teaches us rules, and brings people together.

Rene_Garrido — 2025-09-29 19:53:29 UTC

Media is controlled by powerful groups (like governments or corporations) and shows only some voices.

Rene_Garrido — 2025-09-29 19:53:43 UTC

Media often underrepresents women and shows them in stereotypes (victims, shallow, obsessed with looks).

Rene_Garrido — 2025-09-29 19:53:54 UTC

Media changes our daily life and how we connect with people (movies, social media, online dating, texting).

Ricardo Castro

2025-09-30 16:25:34 UTC

The medias is a great way to inform, communicate, have fun and use for write your personal situation in social medias whenever I want.

Keylin Villalobos

2025-09-30 16:26:30 UTC

Women are often represented in stereotypical or sexualized roles, while men are shown in positions of power.

Robert Forés

2025-09-30 16:27:23 UTC

The way we interact with each other evolves with mass media. When phones became available for the public, they became popular and everyone started making phone calls.

Now that texting is less expensive and quicker, it's the way most people prefer

Interactionist perspective

2025-09-30 16:27:28 UTC

It changes ideologies between what is ok and what is wrong however most of people changes ideas but no one it’s correct.

2025-09-30 16:28:49 UTC

I agree with this theory because women often have standards, for example, adds of makeup shows us how a women have to look, reinforcing stereotypes.

Ricardo Castro

2025-09-30 16:29:02 UTC

Media is controlled by powerful people who decides what information is shared, and some important things or parts might be censored, and it should be penalized according to social norms

2025-09-30 16:29:31 UTC

I'm agree with this perspective because when I watch TV they always represent women in these ways and it is not correct because we are more than that and we are at the same level with men but the media still trying to portrait woman as the weak sex.

Benajmin Castro

2025-09-30 16:29:44 UTC

Yes!, with the correct and "healthy" use about the media, it can connect us. I really enjoy the times sharing with the people I love with media, some examples are those Friday nights watching "The parent tramp", or waiting excited with my friends when our favourite artist drop a new album to listen to it. For that, media helped me to pass good times with my family and friends.

Shaday Castillo

2025-09-30 16:30:31 UTC

I think that depending of social media to communicate is completely wrong. Its a fact that media connect people in very different ways, but nowadays people depends a lot of their phones to do anything (i’m not an exception) and that is wrong. People need contact physically face to face and not just behind a screen

Ricardo Castro

2025-09-30 16:30:55 UTC

Women are minority groups, which they are looked like sexual thing and used for magazines. Also are represented on social media.

2025-09-30 16:31:39 UTC

I agree with the feminist theory, because the problems that were in past years still happening in the present, women are still invisibilized and some social media promotes that in preventing the development of the feminism.

An example is when Barbie movie’s comes out and people start talking about why men in that movie are seen as dumb with pretty faces when women has been seen like that all the time.

Ricardo Castro

2025-09-30 16:32:31 UTC

In daily life, social media affects and changes behaviour day-to-day.

Sofía R

2025-09-30 16:32:41 UTC

Now a days it influences the mindset of all the people in different ways.

Laura R

lauraramirezg5 — 2025-09-30 16:33:15 UTC

I think the media is a great source of entertainment, and I enjoy it too. It teaches us how to behave and is part of our lives because we're constantly using and watching it, which brings us together. ^^

Antonia González

2025-09-30 16:33:30 UTC

We live in a more globalized world thanks to media, it provide us the ability of acquire all the information we want without limits, and if we use this to our favor, we can expand our knowledge in all the ways.

Ayline Alegría.

2025-09-30 16:33:35 UTC

I choose feminist theory, because I can understand that old movies have a perspective a little sexist, but now with all the technological and cultural progress its sad and uncomfortable to see the inequality that still exists.

Constanza Ortuya

2025-09-30 16:34:54 UTC

I agree with this because when a group of people make an investigation it usually led by a man and only mention him and not the women that work in that too.

benja ayala

2025-09-30 16:35:25 UTC

Certain groups of people, for example some politicians share fake information or data on TV about criminalization, and it just creates fear in working class about losing their goods

Sofía García

2025-09-30 17:35:06 UTC

Women are frequently portrayed in limited roles, such as caretakers, sexual objects, or background characters while men dominate positions of power and authority on screen.

Media also underrepresents women, especially women of color, LGBTQI+ individuals, and those outside of traditional beauty standards.