Richard T Schaefer Role Taking Analysis

Socialization happens every day. Determining if you are aware of how it is affecting you would take a well-educated and trained sociologist from a third-party viewpoint. However, I think that looking for affects of socialization of mass media you will start to change your perspectives. This happens due to the break down and examination of the mass media message you are studying. Defined by Richard T Schaefer Role taking is the process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and responding from that imagined viewpoint. As I write my response assuming the role of a sociologist I know I will have certain bias due to my time spent in a total institution that instilled core values and beliefs into my life.
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This is due to being in a life style for several years, which regulates everything you do by a single person. I feel as it is a tendency for people who have been part of a total institution such as veterans. Join groups on Facebook and other social media sites that have certain ideals and views that relate to them by using videos and other mass media messages. While watching some of these videos and analyzing it as a sociologist on how it influenced my perspective. It made me think twice what the norm was for a veteran in my eyes. One of the most dysfunctional videos that I have watched was from VetTV. The video makes jokes about PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) by showing a commercial video of a neck brace that would allow for a person to choke another person during the night without harming the individual that was getting choked. The whole video commercial was a simple joke, but the norm that was installed in the message is that all veterans that have PTSD are violent. At first I just brushed this off as I thought it was stupid and a little humorous, and went on watching videos, until realizing the serotype and perspective that this kind of video was installing in myself. This kind of Problem is not okay to make jokes. Yet I have been so socialized by other videos like this one that the seriousness does not stick
However during that transition if we utilize Charles Cooley’s concept that the self is an outcome of impression of how others perceive us. And the impression is that veterans are all have PTSD and need medical help can they truly transition without thinking different of themselves. James Mattis says in his interview and I quote “If we tell our veterans enough that this is what is wrong with them they may actually start believing it.” Without the control of material along with the verification of truth in mass media messages that go in to the world we are creating opportunities for problems to occur. While victimhood and disorders in America is exalted, too much of the wrong information could pose the threat of narcotizing dysfunction. With different mass media messages having the same topic but different views on what the facts are about the information giving to the audiences. It will lead to massive amounts of information that the audience will not act on regardless of how compelling the arguments