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Culture Influences through Mass Media
Our culture is highly influenced by mass media by promoting celebrities and ordinary people who do astonishing things into a stereotype that we base our lives on. Society as a whole is represented in the mass media and impacts our culture and how we relate on a daily basis. As much as we would like to believe that we have control over our own lives, the mass media impacts the way we see gender roles, use symbols, distinguish between high and popular culture, and between real and ideal culture.
From the m0ment a child is born they are born into a family that have set cultural norms that shape their behavior and the events they will encounter in life. Gender, the meanings that society associates with being male or female, in the media helps guide how society interacts with each other which in turn will develop cultural norms. In advertisements women are still portrayed to be cleaning the home, or modeling clothes where as men are portrayed......

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