Thursday, February 2, 2017

Possible Solution

      So the solution I wanted to create had to be based on changing the way we socialize people in terms of social class. As you probably know, the main socialization factors are peers, family, school, and media, so I wanted to focus on one of these and try to change the existing process. I then started to think about what keeps people believing in the American Dream and I realized how big apart the media played. The media's what keeps the dream alive, with constant stories of people all of a sudden becoming rich and rising from poverty to the upper class all because of merit. These one hit-wonders are also brought out through tv shows and movies, so I decided to write a letter to one of the main network programs, NBC and just take a chance to make them aware  and see if it could cause any change. The letter I wrote had detailed explanation of the problem and the effects it causes and how their television programming helps perpetuate the problem and I specifically suggested if they  could be more conscious of how they depicted different social classes and how they portrayed social mobility. I think that if they start to put emphasis on the disadvantages flower socioeconomic classes and show how people can put huge amount of effort and still not progress upwardly because their circumstances and I think that will create a greater understanding and lower social stratification. It might also impact how many people try to help and change the structures in our society that makes upward social  mobility so scarce or at times not an option at all.

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