The Relation Between Television and Culture

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Can T.V. shows be the reflection of our society or influence the behavior of the members of our community? Since 1936, when television broadcasting begin, it priority was to inform and to entertain our society; subsequently, a massive amount of rules and regulations were created to control the material presented in TV, which principal goal was to safeguard the moral and ethical standards of it time. Nevertheless, from its beginning to the present home entertainment television standards contents have change; likewise, the moral an ethics values of our society have change and continuing changing from generation to generation. TV shows from the 50’s, 80’s, and the present exposed many changes in the way human role are exposed, the language tone is utilized, the sexual content is displayed, and the multicultural influences are incorporated on TV.

First of all, television comedy like “Father Knows Best”, presented on television from 1954 to 1960, is a typical family show presented in TV, wish portrayed a middle class Caucasian family with three children that life in a Midwest middle class community. Moreover, the specific role that played every member of the family in the show is very clear; for example, the principal role of the father in this show was to be the provider of the family; he is the only member of the family that work out of the house; on the other hand, the mother primary role was to be in charge of the house shorts such as, cleaning, meal preparation, ironing, and to be responsible for the wellness of the members of the family in general. Even more, the parenting style presented in the show, was a combination of an authoritarian and authoritative, were the father’s figure impose rules and request obedience in every s...

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