Response Paper: Television and Brazil
Description:
Response Paper: Television and Brazil
INSTRUCTIONS:
For response paper #2, you will write a 750-word essay in response to the reading on
television and fertility change in Brazil- In you paper, you MUST answer the following
questions (the questions are numbered, but you paper should not include these
numbers or necessarily be broken up according to the pointsuit should flow as an
integrated whole):
1) Briefly describe the effect Brazilian TV and soap operas on fertility-
2) How might Dukheim’s functionalism best explain this authors’ research? Please
talk about values and solidarity.
3) Lastly, can you think of an example of this same process where the media has
influenced behavior in or: society?
I will attach a copy of the instructions/reading as well- When you open the
attachment and scroll down you will find the reading on television and fertility change
in Brazil- m