Black Family Life on Television and the Socialization of the African American Child

Images of Marginality

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ID2965100
AuthorsGordon L Berry (School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume29
Issue2
Pages233-242
Publication date1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.29.2.233
OpenAlexW2600932216
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited6

Historically, it was the responsibility of the family and other traditional institutions to carry out the socialisation process. While the family is still the major agent of socialization, the vast communication system of today, especially television, has now taken its place as a type of socializing agent. Given the history of the marginalized images of African American family life and culture in print and in the electronic media, it is important to identify the potential role that television might play in the socialization of the Black child. This article discusses some of the issues associated with the attractiveness of television to African American children, and its potential impact on them. It also offers some guidelines for those research paradigms that will attempt to explore the influence of Black family life images on television on the values of the African American child

African american · Family life · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Child Development and Digital Technology · Education, Sociology, Communication Studies · Gender Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis

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