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Social Institutions
Our media is a major element of socialization for a number of reasons. The first is that it is, to some degree, a representation of the world we live in. While much of what is depicted is fiction, the way that people's home and work lives are presented on television is an influencer with respect to how we view our own lives, and the types of things to which we aspire. We pick up behavioral cues from the characters on TV shows, for example, but also cues about social structures and how we interact with one another. Our media is the means by which the majority of ideas are transmitted to us in the modern world, with television, the Internet and radio all receiving hours every day of exposure.
An example of this can be found in the sitcom. The sitcom as a medium is intended to generate humor through situations relatable to typical families. For the situations to be humorous, they have to be relatable in some way to the audience. Early sitcoms focused on the so-called nuclear family, which was always patriarchal, and almost always white. A child watching such programming would view that as a standard of normality, something that they might measure their own life against. Children in homes where parents divorced...
Families that were not white would likely conclude that they were not as accepted. This is because television is basically an aggregator, and those in power viewed the only relevant audience in America to be white; anybody not white would receive a negative message about their status in this country. If that is compared to a show like Modern Family, where those old archetypes are broken down, such a show reflects a world today where the family can be comprised any number of different ways, and all are considered normal. A child watching such programming today would have a better sense of belonging because of the representations of different family structures, different gender roles, and people of different ethnicities and sexual orientations.
The types of programming overall also affect how a child perceives its world. The sitcom is just one of many types of programming. A child immersed in "reality television" that promotes narcissism, superficiality and in many instances anti-social behavior will doubtless adopt some of the affectations and outlooks to which he or she is exposed. "News" programming that directly…
References
Kendall, D. (2015) Sociology in Our Times, Tenth Edition. Cengage.
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