These are not easy questions, but to arrive at an appropriate answer, one must have a better ideaof what the television does to the socialization process of children. This essay will introduce how young children acquire strategies within television culture that helps them configure their individual, yet also home -motivated versions of the American dream
(let us assume this “dream” applies to Canadians as well). The television industry serves to provide images and messages about the “good life” in our culture, as it functions as a promoter of consumer capitalism as well as an electronic showcase of democratic politics. From this, it will be clear that, in this kind of television culture, young people find their own specific “symbolic links” that connect their current situations, their possible selves, and the “good lives” into which they want to move