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Sample Research Questions On Double Standards

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Your research question. Remember, it needs to be narrow and specific. See the notes below.
-How our gender stereotypes about sexual behavior reinforced in popular tv shows?
-How tv influence people's views on gender?
-My first topic was on racial double standard in media because that topic was just running through my mind when the teacher was explaining the prompt in class and I thought of chappelle's show. This was my favorite show when I was growing up but it was cancelled because it was racist but funny. This related to my first topic but Then I went to the professor office hours to discuss even more about my topic to narrow it down. I did more research on double standard and I noticed that there so much topics that relate to double standard. The one that I found really interesting was on sexual/gender double standards on media(tv shows). I found this interesting because I can relate to this as well not like the other topics related to double standard.

2. Summarize one important claim you have discovered in the ongoing conversation on this topic (with source/s). …show more content…

The men’s role in society is that they have to be the leader in their household making the decisions. They have to be financial stable and provide anything their family wants while the women are working full time in their homes taking care of their family. The media supplements the gender roles of society in television making this more noticeable. The article “Not so Modern Family: Top sitcoms make for sexist, inaccurate television” by Michelle Haimoff stated that “male characters are professionally accomplished, while female characters are unemployed or struggling” She talks about how women in tv shows are mostly not employed, but if they do have a job they barely have enough to pay their bills showing a sign of struggle. Male characters have a good paying jobs and seen as perfect in tv

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