TUTORIAL 3 ANSWER QUESTION

1. Examine class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas and daytime talk shows.

How american television portrayed is that they show white people as a main actor, the one who will win the competition , besides that, they also portrayed that the one who lose is the black people, asian or indian. white people always seen as a hero. but nowadays we can see a changes, like oprah winfrey show, Barrack Obama.

2. What is the American Dream and how has it been portrayed on television? Who has it excluded and why?

American is identic with white people, their dream is to have successful politic, economy and etc. so they always show that their country is commonwealth country and has a super power, they also portray their army has a very powerful impact .

Minority group such as black people were excluded, because at that time, black people was a slave and they think that black people was not a part of american dream.

3. How do media representations of class reflect the larger social system and social inequality?

The media representations of class as a reflection of the larger social system and social inequality is somewhat true. The only difference is that media tends to over-exaggerate certain points but that is how they make things clear. However, there are times when they portray a form of biasness, such as having the white men having all the power and the minorities and having little to no power.

Furthermore, media representations of class happen to be encouraging their portrayals in real-life situations rather than spreading awareness regarding it.

4. How is the working class portrayed when it has been represented?

 They show that working class always busy with their job, and try to fulfill boss's desire, have to complete their task , at that time, they have to control their financial tightly because their income is not much .

5. What are the struggles faced in trying to get a show about working class people on TV?

They have to take both family and complete their work, which sometimes, it can be contradict to each other such as the time management, life principles, etc .

 6. How are race and gender intertwined with class on TV?

 white people are often shown to be rich, high integrity and classy kind of people where as the minorities are often shown to be poor, non educated, criminals, etc.

 Men shows as the hero, leader, who have a strong impact, while woman portrayed as, weak person, not that smart compare to men.