a. Gender socialization/pg. 74: learning society’s “gender map,” the paths in life set out for us because we are male or female. The path laid out for both the male and female gender in China is very obvious. Males in China are much more wanted in the country than females are. Many males in China’s culture are raised as single children and are very spoiled and get almost anything they want. The males are treated this way because they are then expected to stay with the family to take care of the elders later in life. Males are also wanted more than females because they are to carry on the family name. A female will typically marry another man which means that female’s last name will get changed and less of a chance to carry on the female’s
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Mass media/pg. 77: forms of communication, such as radio, newspapers, and television that are directed to mass audiences. Mass media is the reason that a lot of information is learned about other countries. The information learned about other countries through mass media is not always good information that that country wanted to let out of its borders but sometimes it has no choice. In the case of this documentary, information is exposed about China’s one child policy and how offsetting it is to not only the economy but to the culture in China. Due to the one child policy in China, there will soon be an offset of 30 million more men than women. This is due not only to the one child policy but also because of the off balanced want for boys vs. girls in China. So when a family has a girl when they really wanted a boy they sometimes would kill or let the baby die. That fact accompanied with the one child policy is the reason for the major offset of males vs. females. Without mass media, this type of knowledge would possibly not be known today. This fact is most likely not something that the country of China would want to advertise and let the world know. The world of mass media is something that will never go away and continues to be a reason unwanted information is spread throughout the world.
Mass media/pg. 77: forms of communication, such as radio, newspapers, and television that are directed to mass audiences. Mass media is the reason that a lot of information is learned about other countries. The information learned about other countries through mass media is not always good information that that country wanted to let out of its borders but sometimes it has no choice. In the case of this documentary, information is exposed about China’s one child policy and how offsetting it is to not only the economy but to the culture in China. Due to the one child policy in China, there will soon be an offset of 30 million more men than women. This is due not only to the one child policy but also because of the off balanced want for boys vs. girls in China. So when a family has a girl when they really wanted a boy they sometimes would kill or let the baby die. That fact accompanied with the one child policy is the reason for the major offset of males vs. females. Without mass media, this type of knowledge would possibly not be known today. This fact is most likely not something that the country of China would want to advertise and let the world know. The world of mass media is something that will never go away and continues to be a reason unwanted information is spread throughout the world.