Television And The Family

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Television shows are made to entertain an audience. Sometimes they plots are just made up inside someone’s head, and other times they reflect what is going on in that society at a given period in time. Two shows in the same genre can be very similar, but then again can also be very different. They could both contain the same social issues, but portray them in different ways. A group of five of us was given the task to watch two shows and analyze them in terms of two social issues of our own choice and analyze how the issue fit with the time at which it was aired.
Our research team had five people and we had to divide up the tasks between each of us. Our first task was to figure out what television show and issue we wanted to use. We went down the list for television shows and chose the most obvious issues in each and then found another show that contained the same issue. We came to the conclusion to watch “The Nanny” and “The Cosby Show” and relate them to issues of family and social class. Next we assigned different tasks. I do not have a television therefore my group decided that I should not be one of the people watching the television shows. So I was assigned the job of finding the television data from www.tvtome.com, finding the historical data, and collating the observation notes. The rest of the group assigned television shows based on whether they would be free to watch them. Deartra watches “The Nanny” everyday after school, so she agreed to watch two episodes and Nelson said that he was free to watch the two episodes also. So that basically left Nicole and Rachel to watch “The Cosby Show”. The basic way we chose the episodes was by choosing whatever was on that night; we did not choose any specific episode. We then took down everyone’s email addresses and telephone numbers so we could all stay in contact while doing the assignment. We decided that everyone would just email me a copy of...