OBSERVATION OF TV VIOLENCE
In my experiment I will study the behavior of children before, during and after viewing a violent television program, specifically “The Power Rangers.” I will use the theories of Charles Horton Cooley, George Herbert Mead and Harold Wilensky to analyze the results according to their theories.Cooley’s theory is that people shape the aspects of their identity so that it would fit what others would want. Therefore we would become the kind of person we believe others think we should be. Harold Wilensky said that the media produces a mass culture, in which people have similar culture, that people have similar cultural tastes and political values shaped by the media. This produces a mass of people with similar thoughts and feelings, which can be manipulated by the media.Mead believed that the self is a social product, acquired by observing and assimilating the identities of others. He believed that for identification and assimilation there is a need for communication. The communication is the interaction of language, culture, family, peers and with a new form of communication, media. For Mead, childhood play and games were important activities. These activities used the idea of ro
That they were trying to be like the people they admired and that they hoped to become similar to the characters on the show. They fought using their imaginary weapons. He is half Muslim and half Jewish; neither of his parents are strictly religious. Both his parents are Jewish and he has a twin brother, but no sisters. There were 2 Spiderman toys, 3 Power Ranger toys, 3 Batman toys, 2 Buzz Light-year toys (from the movie “Toy Story”) and 1 Ninja Turtle toy. She lives with both of her parents and was born in the US. He was born here and both his parents were born in Mexico. At 3:00 the three children were pl0aying marbles with each other. They spent the commercial time to talk about the show and to eat their hotdog. This time they named their toys so that it was one of the characters in the show that they just saw. The children would play and they would sometimes get into fights about the rules of the game. Around 3:50 the ending battle of the Power Rangers started and Sina started to sing the theme song of the show, “go go Power Rangers…” as the TV was playing the song. During the commercials Luis and Dima got up and went outside to play with the ball some more, while Sandra stayed inside to watch the commercials. For this observation I was in my friend’s house on November 15, 1999. According to the action of the two boys was to show that they were like the models on the TV show.
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