Three Hundred Sitcoms About Class Gender Analysis

During the screenings of Family Ties, Married with Children, Arrested development, and Modern Family I noticed that even though they were all filmed in different decades they all seemed to have similar settings and themes. Meaning by the of each episode it was a certain thing that the family will overcome the situation that is in front of them during that episode and be together. After reading Richard Butsch “Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class Gender” I can see how over the years that society viewed families in a new perspective especially in Married with Children. In the article it explains how the admiration of physical labor began to decline in the 1950s. No longer where men that do the heavy lifting from nine to five representative …show more content…
When Al Bundy sets up to have a family barbecue for Sevens birthday he is encounter by a rich man with his family. He tells Al since he is rich he can do whatever he wants. He rented out the whole park leaving Al Bundy and his family in a little part of the park where he couldn’t do anything. At one point the upper class family were given instructions by there dad to point and laugh at the lower class family. This is an example on what the article says that how the America’s working class were being demean by these people and how the audience would see the lower middle …show more content…
By having men devalued by characterizing them as feminine and having adults devalued by characterizing them as a childlike. In Family Ties we see the mother and father being locked up in jail for protesting on nuclear weapons. And the kids are trying to bail them out of jail for the consequences. Alex P. Keaton hints to having opposite characteristics by saying that he thought it would be easier being kids when their parents get older. Which is what parents would say to their kids for being immature or doing the wrong