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During the course of looking at education, and ethnicity issues I became interested in how ethnic groups were portrayed in the media

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Have a little read: ... Lesley Symons - Sociology Coursework AS THE MEDIA AIM During the course of looking at education, and ethnicity issues I became interested in how ethnic groups were portrayed in the media. Although I haven't studied this before, I wanted to do something different, but still apply the fundamental theories which I have studied. I have noticed how there seems to be a trend with all areas involving ethnicity, and personally feel there is racism and under-representation of ethnic groups on television, and definitely inequalities in the press. The media has a huge effect on our perception of life and self-concepts, and reinforce stereotypical ideals, and it seems that ethnic minorities tend to be characterised as uneducated, illiterate and bad role-models. Therefore the aim of this research is to see how people feel about the way the media represents all ethnic groups, and whether they think they are stereotypical. (139) CONTEXT & CONCEPTS My first concept is

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