The document discusses how gender, race, and class are significant to cultural meaning, especially in television. Often, television writers use stereotypes and generalizations related to gender, race, and class to make shows more relatable to target audiences. However, this can make it harder for society to move away from generalizing others based on attributes like race, gender, or social class. Rarely do television shows break away from using stereotypes out of fear of not relating to audiences and those audiences then being unaccepting of those who don't fit popular generalizations.
The document discusses how gender, race, and class are significant to cultural meaning, especially in television. Often, television writers use stereotypes and generalizations related to gender, race, and class to make shows more relatable to target audiences. However, this can make it harder for society to move away from generalizing others based on attributes like race, gender, or social class. Rarely do television shows break away from using stereotypes out of fear of not relating to audiences and those audiences then being unaccepting of those who don't fit popular generalizations.
The document discusses how gender, race, and class are significant to cultural meaning, especially in television. Often, television writers use stereotypes and generalizations related to gender, race, and class to make shows more relatable to target audiences. However, this can make it harder for society to move away from generalizing others based on attributes like race, gender, or social class. Rarely do television shows break away from using stereotypes out of fear of not relating to audiences and those audiences then being unaccepting of those who don't fit popular generalizations.
The document discusses how gender, race, and class are significant to cultural meaning, especially in television. Often, television writers use stereotypes and generalizations related to gender, race, and class to make shows more relatable to target audiences. However, this can make it harder for society to move away from generalizing others based on attributes like race, gender, or social class. Rarely do television shows break away from using stereotypes out of fear of not relating to audiences and those audiences then being unaccepting of those who don't fit popular generalizations.
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Christina Marie Smith
WRT 1020, Section 2; College Composition II
Dr. William Shea Fall, 2015 Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Weekly Analytical/Reflective E-Journal Entry Journal Entry #4 How important are race, class, and gender to cultural meaning? Explore your thoughts about these issues and how they are applied to meaning of the icons, rituals, stereotypes, formulas within our culture. Select an item within our culture and speculate on its meaning as it is contextualized by issues of race, class, and gender.
The topic of gender, race, and class are significant to cultural meaning in the world of television in our country. Often writers use the realm of gender, race and class to create shows in effort to become relatable to their target audience. When television shows are created with stereotypes and generalizations in effort to create relevance for the viewers it makes it harder for society to move aways from generalizing others based upon things such as race, gender or social class. It is rare to see television shows that break away from using stereotypes or over generalizations in fear that they will not be able to relate to the audience which then causes the audience to be unaccepting of others who do not fit into the popular generalization of others race, age, or class that is familiar to them in the world of mainstream television that is a large part of peoples lives in american culture.
