Mass media's role helps prevent the questioning of the elite.
             "Families and churches and schools adapt to modern life; governments and
             armies and corporations shape it; and, as they do so, they turn these lesser
             institutions into means for their ends" (Mills, p.6). The family into which
             someone was born or marries into helps improve or decrease their social
             status. The school where one is educated or the church where one worships
             also plays a major role in the social standing. Schools teach skills to the
             masses that enable them to function in society. Institutions shape life and the
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