Watching Television With Family

Watching Television with family: A Sociologicalwell by the house wives because due to immense
Analysis(with respect to India)relationship with the T.V. they forgot to serve the
Explanation of Mediagrant parents.
With the passage of time media has become theThen in the present days we had also seen that the
base of our society. It had been helping us byrelationship of T.V had got so broaden up with the
providing useful information relating to politics, soaps,family members that each and every offices are
movies day to day life affairs, tragedies, historicalkeeping T.V in their blocks .Then we had also taken a
materials, geographical knowledge, temperature ofnote that the advertisement agency are putting their
places , notification about events, synopsis of shareadvertisement on T.V and through this the family
market etc. It had been providing us information ofmembers are getting information about latest trends,
the above mentioned types through the medium oflatest products, and making a change in family
T.V, newspapers, internet spontaneously without anyrelationship by those products .Then we had also
break, In the last 50 years we had seen that theseen that by watching the daily soaps in T.V , the
media influence has grown exponentially with therelationship with T.V gets so developed that the
advance of technology, first there was the telegraph,family members sometimes felt to cry by watching
then the radio, the newspaper, magazines, televisionthe work of the dramatician in T.V soaps and also
and now the internet.sometimes they became very harsh by seeing the
Then we must that we live in a society that dependscreature like behavior made by the dramaticians in
on information and communication to keep moving inT.V.
the right direction and do our daily activities like work,Relationship of T.V In High Class Society:
entertainment, health care, education, personalWe had also observed that the relationship of family
relationships, traveling and anything else that we havewith T.V also varies from class to class , we had
to do.seen that in high class families the relationship was
A common person in the city usually wakes upmuch more broader than in middle class families , here
checks the T.V news or newspaper, goes to work,the scope of T.V was so much that the each rooms
makes a few phone calls, eats with their family whenhere are composed with T.V and then each family
possible and makes his decisions based on themembers are having different tastes for which they
information that he has either from their co workers,are following different channels like the elder ones
news, T.V, friends, family, financial reports, etc.are mostly busy with share market information,
What we need to be aware is that most of ourmarket turnover information mainly with the fall and
decisions, beliefs and values are based on what werise in prices and also the elder female members by
know for a fact, our assumptions and our ownseeing T.V gets about market information and
experience. In our work we usually know what wetherefore they go to market for shopping daily for
have to do based on our experience and studies,following the new trends in the world . Then we had
however on our daily lives we rely on the media toalso found that in these class party is mainly a part
get the current news and facts about what isfor their living and so all the family members always
important and what we should be aware of.keep a watch in the T.V for upcoming parties and
We have put our trust on the media as an authorityevents. Then we had also found that children in these
to give us news, entertainment and education.class are being mostly neglected by their elders
However, the influence of mass media on our kids,because they are mostly busy in their work and so
teenagers and society is so big that we should knowthese children make a good relationship with the T.V
how it really works. But in the past and now also T.Vand devote most of their time on .TV mainly on
is one of the medium which had been accepted thecartoons , pornography films and which in return
most in general public as a source of media.pushed them to become a social evil for th society
Evolution of Televisionand also cause a bad effect for their studies.
The word T.V had came from the full meaningRelationship of T.V In Middle / Low Class Society:
television. The first demonstration of T.V wasHere in these society the relationship and scope of
invented by John Logie Baird in Hastings, England inT.V was not wider as comparison to the high class
1923. But the first concept of the T.V was a sketchsociety , as the number of T.V was not so much in
done by a 14-year-old farm boy named Philo T.these class , and so we can see the family members
Farnsworth in 1922. On September 7, 1927, he finallyusually see the T.V in common and the privacy of
created a television system that could not onlyseeing the T.V easily not found in these class, here
display, but transmit signals between separate rooms.we can also found that due to the low income of the
But the actual evolution of television can befamily members , usually they don’t get chance
observed from the fossils found in American garbageof buying things even though they follow the T.V
dumps clearly show the evolution of the radio intoand so we can see influence by T.V in these class is
the television set. Layers of fossil garbage from thenot good.
WWI era (10 million years ago) contain fragments ofHere due to low number of T.V in these class the
radios that use vacuum tubes. The first televisionschildren usually not get the chance of seeing the
appear in the WWII layer (8 million years ago) thatcartoons, pornography films separately so the
lies immediately above the WWI layer. Therelationship does not get so much developed as it
components in these early television sets are nearlydeveloped in the above mentioned society , so the
identical with those in the WWI radios, so the radiodamaged caused by the T.V on the children is not
clearly evolved into the television. Both the radio andthere and so there is no influence over the studies of
television show signs of further evolution, withthe children here.
transistors replacing tubes in later models. RadiosPositive Gains Derived From T.V :
evolved into televisions through a process of randomThough in the present days the relationship of
mutations and natural selection , Over a period of 2television with the family had been vast and created
million years, the radio gradually evolved into alots of problems in present day life of the families still
television set. Although the transitional forms haveit had helped and gave the families in many ways and
never been discovered, but after a detail analysis itthey are as follows :
was found that One day, on a whim, a worker1. by making the relationship with T.V the family
decided to add a picture tube to the radio. Themembers like the women’s can learn the process
picture tube didn't actually do anything, because thereof making new food dishes which they can prefer
weren't any horizontal or vertical deflection circuitsfor their lunch ,breakfast and dinner.
yet, but the little white dot in the center of the2. by making relationship with T.V the family
screen impressed the inspector so much that hemembers can easily tour the world .
changed the plans so that all future radios would3. by making relationship with T.V the children in the
have picture tubes. Some years later, anotherfamilies can learnt lots of things , which in return can
worker added deflection circuitry to make the littlehelp them for their general knowledge studies and
dot move across the screen from left to right andcan also helped to participate in debates, and can also
top to bottom. Since this was much more fun to lookhelped them to make their article .
at, it was incorporated into the plans. Of course it4. by making relationship with T.V the family
cost more to build radios this way, but for somemembers can see live cricket matches by sitting in
reason the moving light spot added some survivalhome through T.V
benefit in the electronics market. Since consumers5. by making relationship with T.V the family
would not buy a radio without a moving dot, allmembers can see live operation in hospital through
competing radios were built this way.T.V.
And at exactly the same time, somebody at a radio6. by making relationship with T.V the family
station decided to hook a camera up to themembers can advertise on it and can derive gains for
transmitter, instead of a microphone, just to seetheir business .
what would happen. The image was broadcast from7. by making relationship with T.V the family
the radio station to the television set, and themembers can obtain share market information.
broadcast industry was born and like this evolution of8. by making relationship with T.V the family
television takes place.members can participate in competition on going
Relationship of T.V With Family In The Early Days:topics and hence can achieve awards in respective
After the evolution of T.V we had seen that in thefields shown on T.V.
earlier days the scope of television was not so wide9. by making relationship with T.V the family
because one of the reason was that at that timemembers can hear and see news from the whole
most of the families does not get the chance ofglobe through the medium of media.
buying T.V because of high installation charges , and10. by making relationship with T.V the family
another reason was that after having install also bymembers can make themselves aware of the dates
some families then also we get to see that theof polio vaccines and also the desired place at which
channels in T.V was not so vast , as there were onlythe vaccination programmes will held.
one or two channels which family members usuallyMajor Impacts of T.V:
see together ,and at that time the programmes in1. Impact on Kids
T.V was basically no “A GRADED” soaps,Television is one of the most prevalent media
movies, but there was cultural shows like danceinfluences in kids' lives. According to Kids' Take on
show like Odissi ,baratnatyam, kucipuddi , and thenMedia, a survey conducted in 2003 by the Canadian
there was shows like “chandrakanta , bikramTeachers’ Federation, watching TV is a daily
betal , Mahabharata , Ramayana , yeh mera circus haipastime for 75 percent of Canadian children, both
, ardhangini , jai hanuman, DD news” and alsoboys and girls from Grade 3 to Grade 10, then how
movies which composed of family relations and somuch impact TV has on children depends on many
these type of serials and movies was basically watchfactors like : how much they watch, their age and
by all ( grand parents , father , mother, children ) andpersonality, whether they watch alone or with adults,
by watching these kinds of things most of theand whether their parents talk with them about what
families members had not suffered like this days butthey see on TV. So to minimize the potential
had gained knowledge about our history and culturenegative effects of television, it's important to
which had helped them to follow the social norms,understand what the impact of television can be on
behavior, values of the society and by followingchildren. Then over the past two decades, hundreds
these things family members mainly the youngof studies have examined how violent programming
members had learned certain things like how to giveon TV affects children and young people, While a
respect to elders, , how to talked with elders , thendirect "cause and effect" link is difficult to establish,
they have also learned how to give respect tothere is a growing consensus that some children may
teachers in school and as at that time there was nobe vulnerable to violent images and messages.
stuffs like violence ,pornography shown on T.V soResearchers have identified potential responses to
the family members were not badly effect like thismedia i.e. : Increased fear—also known as the
days happening . Many well known researchers had"mean and scary world" syndrome Children,
found that at the early period as the scope of T.Vparticularly girls, are much more likely than adults to
was very much less so the impact of the T.V wasbe portrayed as victims of violence on TV, and this
very less but its impact was mostly on welfare ofcan make them more afraid of the world around
family by providing them useful information aboutthem. Some of the most violent TV shows are
their necessity like news, sports, religious informationchildren's cartoons, in which violence is portrayed as
,cultural programmes , education knowledge basedhumorous—and realistic consequences of violence
programmes , and musical shows and programmesare seldom shown. This can be especially true of
Relationship of T.V With Family In The Present Days:young children, who are more likely to exhibit
In the earlier period we have seen that the scopeaggressive Behaviour after viewing violent TV shows
and relationship of T.V with family was not so largeor movies.
but now with the passage of time it was seen that2. Impact on health
the cost of T.V have reduced a lot and therefore aBy watching T.V for longer hours most of the family
home without a television was not found anymore.members became the prey for obesity and this
And now with the introduction of cable lines and dishobesity pushed them for having various kinds of
TV , the scope of T.V had widen itself very much ,diseases , reports from newspapers had shown us
and therefore through the T.V the family membersthat most of the heart attacks are causing to the
can see different types of channels like religiouspeople because of the obesity.
channel, adventures channel, sports channel , music3. Impact of violence
channel, history channel , movie channel , newsBy watching T.V for longer hours, mainly the violence
channel , information channel and cartoon channel andpart in movies ,most of the family members thereby
so the family members can see the channelgets influenced and gets frusteted out and cause
whatever they like to see .and also we had taken aviolence in home and also in society, like beating of
note that these days most of the people arewives, children, killing and hearting the other societies
devoting most of their time in T.V , like the youngmembers.
ones are devoting their time on cartoon channels and4. Impact of blindness
the teenagers are devoting their time on fashionBy watching T.V for longer hours , most of the
channels ,music channels and video songs channelsfamily members mainly the grant parents becomes
and also we had taken a note that the eldersblind and even the children also become blind by
members in the families are devoting their time inwatching cartoons for longer hours
daily soaps like “kyunki shaas bhi kabhi bahu thi ,5. Impact on brain
kasauti zindagi ki , left right left , kkusum , heena ,By watching T.V for longer hours , the concentration
office office , ek larki mahole me rahne oli , kahanipower of human being gets destroyed and therefore
ghar ghar ki and kahi kisi roz” and by seeingthey cannot concentrate on studies as well as on
these things the elder family members are seeing andbusiness matters and on official matters.
learning the trend from the T.V and copying andConclusion:This article has brought out a total analyze
using these trends as their own lifestyle . we had alsoof T.V relationship with family , in the first halves of
taken a note that with the introduction of newthe article we have seen the definition of media and
channel like sony , star plus , zee t.v family membersthe evolution of T.V, then in the middle halves of the
are influencing day by day , at first we used to seearticle we have analyzed and compare the
that family members usually see the T.V togetherrelationship of T.V with family members by throwing
but nowadays the family members are seeinglights in the early period and also in the present
television ingroups and also in separate roomsperiod and then we have discussed about the
because in order not to see those kinds of stuffspositive gains that have been derived from the T.V
with elders , now a days the relationship of televisionand then in the lower halves of the article we have
had gone so vast that pornography are wide beenfocused on the major impacts of T.V and came to
seen in television and which results in destruction ofconcluded that relationship of T.V with family at one
memory of the family members and as result theyside gives families privileges and on the another side
cannot control themselves and causing them to rapeit gives the families mostly the bad effects and so
women and girls and so we can hold T.V as one offor the welfare of family in our society I would
the culprits for rape .recommend that relationship with T.V should be kept
We had also seen that lots of families are beingin a safe distance from the family by the family
breaking up to smaller families from the joint familiesmembers like that relationship that family members
by seeing television soaps , and we had seen alsoused to keep in zoo from animals.
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