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    Television and Children

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    Sociology Mid-Term Paper Television and Violence By Trevor Huffman Na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ Batman! Na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ na‚ Batman! Batman‚ Batman‚ Batman! Wham! Pow! Kaboom! We have all no doubt watched and mimicked at some point in our lives our favorite comic book hero’s. We have donned the capes and strapped on the fake guns to run around the great outdoors in search of capturing and eliminating the villains! The television has brought these images and

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    Television‚ the Desensitizer We do not have to watch television for very long to realize that violence is a common theme on a variety of shows. It can be found almost everywhere‚ including daytime talk shows and so-called sports entertainment programs. These programs may be defined as entertainment but they do more harm than good when we consider the effects that watching violent programming has on viewers. When we observe how these programs can influence behavior‚ especially among younger viewers

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    Advantages Of Television

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    Advantages of television: Positive: Literacy‚ Democratization of Information‚ Enrichment of Culture. In this era‚ also known as information age‚ Television plays significant role in disseminating information and shaping people’s opinions. Since its invention television has been used for several different purposes including‚ broadcasting information‚ imparting knowledge and providing entertainment masses. Television has a lot of positive effects on society and culture

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    Television Aggression

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    According to George Gerbner‚ violence is the overt expression of physical force against others or self‚ or compelling of action against one’s will on pain of being hurt or killed. To extend Gerbner’s definition of violence‚ I selected 4 television programs to count verbal as well as physical aggression in these TV shows. One of the many educational television programs that I selected was Barney. To my opinion Barney did not contain any verbal or physical aggressive behavior. This show taught children

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    Children and Television

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    Children and Television Kyiesha Isiah COM/156 February 17‚ 2013 Gina Greco Children and Television According to the AC Nielson Company‚ 2007 the average American child will watch eight thousands murders before finishing elementary school. In years past children went outside for recreation‚ this tradition has now been replaced with television contributing to childhood obesity. The time children today are spending watching television has reached critical levels causing many experts to be

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    Structural Functional Theory

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    Gabriel Vazquez Soc 101 Intro Sociology Bonus Essays 12/7/2012 Introduction The structural- functional theory is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. As the name suggest it deals with the social structure and function. Social structure is any relatively stable pattern of social behavior. Social Function is the consequences of a social pattern for the operation of society as a whole. While conflict

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    Impact of Television

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    The impact of television on children depends on many factors like: how much they watch‚ their age‚ they watch alone or with adults First‚ I will talk about the positive effects: � It helps child to collect his lessons by watching educational television programs. � Get as much information and the formation of a cultural character by watching cultural programs. � Identify the different types of art and various forms of music. � spend more time with the family to watch television programs and discussed

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    For example‚ the majority of the movie takes place within the prison walls of the Shawshank State Penitentiary. The penitentiary‚ where the functionalism occurs‚ is an example of a total institution. A total institution is an organization where the participants‚ or inmates‚ have a controlled lifestyle and where total resocialization has occurred. Andy experiences a degradation ceremony the minute

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    Is Television Harmful

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    much scenes of using drugs and what not cause if you look at most shows that have it all comes from reason and logic. Television in a way makes children lazy as they sit behind it doing nothing and usually they gain less from television than from books. It may be argued that it can be watched during our leisure but students spend all their free time watching television instead of dividing it and doing more profitable stuff. Media is ugly filthy and dirty. It shouldn’t exist. But alas it does

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    your kid to negative influences‚ and promotes negative behavior.  TV shows and commercials usually show violence‚ alcohol‚ drug use and sex in a positive light.  The mind of your kid is like clay. It forms early impressions on what it sees‚ and these early impressions determine how he sees the world and affect his grown-up behavior.  For instance‚ children who are more exposed to media violence behave more aggressively as kids and when they are older.  Kids who watch too much TV are usually overweight

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