What were some of the that television influenced America's "mass consumer culture" in the 1950s?

 

In the lives of most Americans TV is a continuous sight. It dominates several people's attention for many hours per day with its quickly shifting, visually interesting, highly entertaining format. Research has found that television competes in the production of ideals and ideas about the environment around it with other forms of human contact including families, friends, church and education. It also impacts the views and opinions of audiences towards themselves and people from other social, racial and cultural backgrounds.

Commercial TV had a far-reaching influence on American society and culture during the 1940s and 2000s. The way people think about social problems as important as race, sex and class was influenced. In the political process, she played a major role, particularly in shaping the national elections. Television shows and advertising were also cited as primary influences leading to American materialism (a view that places more value on acquiring material possessions than on developing in other ways). TV eventually helped spread American culture worldwide

TV was one of the most common objects in the 1950s. There were nearly 3 million television owners at the beginning of the decade; 55 million at the end of the decade watched programming from 530 stations. TV sets averaged from around 500 dollars in 1949 to 200 dollars in 1953.

1.Sparks specialization

I recall my mother and friends saying that they were together every week to watch the new episode and to talk it when it first came to light in the 1970s, as I watched "M.A.S.H.' reruns on "Nick in Nite as a kid." Social watching isn't new, but it has taken on a whole new level due to the spike in social media networks. As an adult, I did the same for "Lost," but with a twist with my friends. Not only did we watch the film, but we also jumped to connect with other fans on Facebook and Twitter. We also entered an online community where fans from all parts of the world spoke about the event. We spoke with people with whom we had never met otherwise through Facebook, Twitter and online forums.

2.Influenced the way people eat and live

TV shows were both local breakfast shows or PBS programs like The Frugal Gourmet" and The French Chef." Now we are shifting our perspective on cooking from the cooking of cooking in art [source: da Silva] to an array of food-centric channel networks like the Food Network and Cooking Channel. Have a look at how Rachael Ray has made virgin extra olive oil more famou (to a lot of foodies' sorrow). However, ironically, when on TV the number of people who cook on food drops as never before. Just 41% of Americans cook at home five or more days a week in a 2010 Harris poll. The statistic was just 33 percent for millennials. The chef- dinner has taken a back seat and spends all the spare hours working and watching TV watching, web browsing).

3.Shapes our values

Reality TV is nothing new, and programs such as "Candid Camera." have been a long way to go. How have media reality affected us and what about American culture? That depends on who you ask - or what you see. In Psychology Now, psychologist Jim Taylor believes that reality tv programmes, like The Apprentice,' make the consumer feel that it should be a win regardless of what the cost. Some experts believe that reality shows makes us feeling inferior and others think that we feel much happier for ourselves. He writes that issues, such as heightened scorn, sport scams and even corporate corruption, are signs of a drop in US standards that we can relate to reality television — at least in part.The columnist of New York, Kelefa Sanneh, says, "The popularity of unscripted programming has had the unexpected effect of ennobling its scripted counterpart."

4.Makes us more violent

Following the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we focus more than ever on what triggers people to act aggressively, and violent TV shows are the main fault. This is impossible to quantify when you research how violence on television impacts violence in the real world. One thing that has changed in history is how we research this possible connection. Dr. David Ostroff, chair of the University of Florida's department of television and communication. "In the past, researchers tried to see if watching a violent TV show caused people to immediately behave more violently, but more modern studies are concerned with the long-term impacts of violent imagery on television," .

5.Leads to increased childhood obesity

There is a clear association between the amount of hours our children spend on the boob tube and the weight of the children, and evidence has shown that effectively reducing the screen time of a child will decrease his risk of obesity. When you get into the association between TV and childhood obesity, a few things play into your mind: diet ads and sedentary time One of the biggest issues with TV watching is that children are subjected to thousands of marketing advertisements each year, many with junk food. If the children sit on the TV, they appear to eat more When advertisements for pizza rolls and butterfingers are available, wonder for what snacks? Food promotion encourages children to eat more and make unhealthy decisions. You normally don't see any advertising for broccoli during "Yo Gabba Gabba" so how many ads do you see for soda, cakes, candies and fast food?

The key factors leading to increased American materialism are often listed in TV and commercial programmes (a view that places more value on acquiring material possessions than on developing in other ways). Finally, TV helped spread the culture of America all over the world. Race minorities on television

By 1960, a vital aspect of Kennedy's slim win was considered in the TV debates between candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. TV has helped make major corporations into college and collegiate sports and sometimes offered outstanding comedy and dramatic programs to massive crowds who previously might not have accessed them. Yet all of what was sometimes dubbed the "boob tube," even to its mildest detractors, was unmistakable garbage. It was designed to sell goods, homogenized cultural flavors, and created insufficient emotions for certain people to associate their true lives with insipid happy characters they saw in shows such as Leaving It to Beaver. It was designed to sell products.