Abstract

Individual and collective identities are constructed on three articulated sites: the biological, the social, and the cultural. Mass-media representations can no longer be grouped under institutional socializations which include the family, peer interactions, and schools. The media are unique sites precisely because of the specific place of technology in the production of culture. Modes of representation are themselves refracted narratives of working-class history. The dispersion of white workers into the suburbs did not immediately destroy working-class communities, although they were considerably weakened by the late 1950s. Workers became the object of liberal scorn, portrayed as racist and sexist, and equally important, as politically and socially conservative. Electronically mediated cultural forms play an enlarged role in the formation of cultural identities. The Honeymooners retains its large audience after thirty years because it displays the range of class and gender relations.

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