SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Status, Hypersensitivity, Consumerism
27 Nov 2017
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Freaks, geeks, and cool kids: american teenagers, schools, and the culture of. Parenting style: milner says that lack of control over important aspects of their lives causes teenagers to seek other forms of control. They are too young to legally smoke or drink: there is one ting they do have control over. Worried about where to sit in the cafeteria. We blame the usual suspects for teenage consumerism. Influential agent of socialization that involves no face-to-face interaction. Mass media: instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those receiving it. Major forms of mass media are books, films, the internet, magazines, newspapers, radio, and television. Television probably has the most influence on the socialization of children. 98 percent of homes in the united states have television sets, with an average of more than two sets per home. of more than two sets per home.
