Cooley’s theory is that people shape the aspects of their identity so that it would fit what others would want. Therefore we would become the kind of person we believe others think we should be. Harold Wilensky said that the media produces a mass culture, in which people have similar culture, that people have similar cultural tastes and political values shaped by the media. This produces a mass of people with similar thoughts and feelings, which can be manipulated by the media.

Mead believed that the self is a social product, acquired by observing and assimilating the identities of others. He believed that for identification and assimilation there is a need for communication. The communication is the interaction of language, culture, family, peers and with a new form of communication, media. For Mead, childhood play and games were important activities. These activities used the idea of ro

In my experiment I observed two children 30 minutes before watching the “Power Rangers” 30 minutes during the show and 30 minutes after the show. The observation was done on the friends of my brother and the friends of my cousins.

At about 3:30 they went back into the living room and they started to watch the “Power Rangers”. During the first 13 minutes they sat next to each other on the couch and watch the show. At about the time of the commercials, Sina’s mother brought them each a hotdog on a bun to eat. They spent the commercial time to talk about the show and to eat their hotdog. When the show started again they began to watch and they ate much slower. It took them about 5 more minutes to finish their food and during this time they watched TV without having a conversation. Around 3:50 the ending battle of the Power Rangers started and Sina started to sing the theme song of the show, “go go Power Rangers…” as the TV was playing the song. After the Power Rangers defeated the “bad guy”, my brother would celebrate with them and that would be the end of the show.

According to the action of the two boys was to show that they were like the models on the TV show. That they were trying to be like the people they admired and that they hoped to become similar to the characters on the show. Wilensky’s theory suggests that the show is influencing the audience and that the producers of the shows are controlling them. The influence can change if the producers change the show and that they can manipulate the audience into thinking of what they want to think of. Mead’s theory would say that the children would view this show because they thought that the actors in it are significant figures and with this respect the children would try to imitate them using the role taking method. The children’s identification is passed down from the actors’ actions to the children.

I did another observation with three different children at my friend’s house. The first child is a male named Dima. He is a Romanian born here and is 8 years old. He is Christian and had a younger brother and lives with both his parents. The second child is a female named Sandra, age 6. She is Armenian Catholic and is an only child. She lives with both of her parents and was born in the US. The third child is a 7-year-old male named Luis. He was born here and both his parents were born in Mexico. He is Catholic, living with 1 younger sister and three older sisters.

After the show Sina would show off his karate moves and start punching the air. Then he and Alex would pretend to be one of

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