Through its varied use of images, products, and advertisements the media creates a very specific set of gender roles for men and women. Because this influences and shapes how we live our daily life the media becomes an agent of

a)  social control.
b)  human agency.
c)  cultural consumerism.
d)  collective consciousness.


ANS: a

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