Sociology

Sociology

1 – Choose your topic area from the following:

a) Definitions of culture and/or popular culture
b) Popular culture as representation
c) The rise of consumer culture
d) Popular culture as mass manipulation
e) Popular culture as active consumption

3 – Your objective is to provide an overall summary of the debates and issues raised by your 4 items, which might help an intelligent layperson to understand the topic you have chosen. This means you must provide a separate discussion of each text – deal with them one at a time in an appropriate order – but you must also try to relate to texts to each other, point out whether they confirm or contradict one another and make it clear when they are focus