Socialization
Steven Bocanegra
Dr. Jim Edmonson
Sociology 1301
24 April 2014
Cover page
Socialization paper 40pts
Television shows really do have a major impact in children and though there is a lot of evidence and proof of this, parents and TV show networks continue to display these acts. The acts range from Violence to sexual content that only a grown adult would be able to pick up on and then a major one which leads to violence, bullying. I sat and watched three hours of children shows, and ended up with four shows that all displayed at least one of these acts that children should not be watching. The four TV shows are
1. Looney Tunes
2. Sponge Bob Square Pants
3. Tom & Jerry
First we will start off with Looney Tunes. In the Looney tunes series you have the roadrunner and wile e coyote. These two characters in this TV show the whole time they are out to basically kill one another. To a little child it doesn’t seem that way but when an old person watches it like I did you can clearly see how the Roadrunner is constantly on the run from Wile e Coyote. The coyote the whole time devises plans to pretty much kill the road runner. In the two episodes that I watched of this children’s show, the first one was probably the worst one out of the two. The Coyote was setting up a trap in the middle of the road and making a barricade with TNT which if the plan worked, would have blown the roadrunner off its little Looney tune planet with the amount of TNT that was laced in the trap in the road. The second episode was the same concept, the coyote trying to catch the fast road runner. This time his plan was to stack a bunch of huge boulders on the cliff top and when the roadrunner came to pass under that cliff, he was going to knock down those boulders and smash the roadrunner and kill him. Now to the little kids, they don’t understand that if any of these traps work that in real life they are going to kill or injure someone. I did not realize
Dr. Jim Edmonson
Sociology 1301
24 April 2014
Cover page
Socialization paper 40pts
Television shows really do have a major impact in children and though there is a lot of evidence and proof of this, parents and TV show networks continue to display these acts. The acts range from Violence to sexual content that only a grown adult would be able to pick up on and then a major one which leads to violence, bullying. I sat and watched three hours of children shows, and ended up with four shows that all displayed at least one of these acts that children should not be watching. The four TV shows are
1. Looney Tunes
2. Sponge Bob Square Pants
3. Tom & Jerry
First we will start off with Looney Tunes. In the Looney tunes series you have the roadrunner and wile e coyote. These two characters in this TV show the whole time they are out to basically kill one another. To a little child it doesn’t seem that way but when an old person watches it like I did you can clearly see how the Roadrunner is constantly on the run from Wile e Coyote. The coyote the whole time devises plans to pretty much kill the road runner. In the two episodes that I watched of this children’s show, the first one was probably the worst one out of the two. The Coyote was setting up a trap in the middle of the road and making a barricade with TNT which if the plan worked, would have blown the roadrunner off its little Looney tune planet with the amount of TNT that was laced in the trap in the road. The second episode was the same concept, the coyote trying to catch the fast road runner. This time his plan was to stack a bunch of huge boulders on the cliff top and when the roadrunner came to pass under that cliff, he was going to knock down those boulders and smash the roadrunner and kill him. Now to the little kids, they don’t understand that if any of these traps work that in real life they are going to kill or injure someone. I did not realize