The text presents this family through a patriarchal society. The father is the breadwinner who goes to to work, the daughter is mature and caring like the mother, the older son wants to be like the dad (they both dress the same). They have a little girl who
2. What insitutions are involved in these texts and do they affect the representations of these families?
NBC (now ABC) aired the show, they are a large American network owned by Viacom. As they are a large institution they would have represented the family in a dominat way- a patrarchal society.
3. The role of politics and the media
Again as the institution is large they would have been owned by an elite group who would have enforced a dominate ideology- hegemony.
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