How the American family was portrayed on television in the 50s and 60s compared to how they are portrayed now?

Running head : AMERICAN FAMILY AS PORTRAYED IN TV

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American Family as Portrayed in Television

Tracing the Roots from Fifties , Sixties and the 21st Century

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Human services use several tools in advancing its goals and objectives Technological solutions have become more and more available to both the public and private sectors in realizing the goals of every human service organization . From planning , empowerment of the members , expanding the contacts reached to the recordkeeping of the human service affairs

of organizations , technology has occupied a considerable space in these developments . The portrayal of media on the actuality of crafting the image of an American family transforms through time . The `reality ' then unfolds the question on the distinction of the two

Introduction

Scholars express the concern that the image of an American family is transitively evolving through time . The conceptions of denigrating the styles and beliefs of racial-ethnic , immigrant , gay-lesbian , and single parent families has been contended in the early nineties to be that which is not encouraging the veracity of portraying an American family but rather offers the otherwise . Hence , little has been known on the context of the eminent portrayal of an American family in television Family ideology shapes the consciousness and expectations of those growing up the margin of the mainstream nevertheless , this leads to the manifestation that the image of the aforementioned member in the community transforms as the market of media simultaneously evolves as well ADDIN EN .CITE GreenblattStephen GreenblattResonance and WonderLearning to Curse1990New YorkRoutledge (Greenblatt , 1990

In essence , media is one of the most surprising sources of information in the society . The potential of television to negatively or positively affect attitudes , social behaviors , and other sort of the like has been studied and thrilling results were gathered . Same is true for the portrayal of families , age , sex , and race-role socialization . As a matter of fact , studies show that the images seen on television by its viewers somehow serve as an educational tool , with this , the threat of getting the wrong perspectives ' is uncontrollable and so are the views of those who have been touched by the influence of media ADDIN EN .CITE Fabes19896 6643Richard A FabesPatricia WilsonF . Scott ChristopherA Time to Reexamine the Role of Televsion in Family LifeFamily RelationsFamily Relations383 1989 (Fabes , Wilson Christopher , 1989

This then connotes the perception that the portrayals aired on television are products of the evolving sense of simultaneous reaction over the media and the society . In simple logic , what the society wishes to see are given by the media , therefore , the portrayal of an American family in the television nowadays are depicting reality ' so to speak . Of course critics often spur a fight with whatever is served on the table that is not a new thing . How media portrays an American family is an issue that comes along with societal changes ADDIN EN .CITE LasswellMark LasswellTV Guide : Fifty Years of Television2002New York NYCrown (Lasswell , 2002 . More specifically , the rise of...