The
term role model in sociology generally means any "person who serves as an example,
whose behavior is emulated by others". Who is your role model? Who do you look up to? Is it
a scientist? A scholar? Or maybe your own parents?
Having
actors as role models has been something that’s been going on for long now, seeing how the actors play certain character,
and the audience might fall for that certain character, but at the same time,
not differentiating between the character and the actor/actress. Especially
children.
One
of the reasons I decided to write about this certain topic is that I remembered
a little chatter between me and my friends about Miley Cyrus. How she was only
seen as Hannah Montana, a role-model for little girls, and then how she evolved
to a totally different example, a bad one. (1-2)
And as for boys, their role models might be from WWE(World wrestling Entertainment), which is an entertainment programs that target males from age 18-34, and also children. But how do you group children with 18-34 years old males? These role models are certainly not good ones.
And as for boys, their role models might be from WWE(World wrestling Entertainment), which is an entertainment programs that target males from age 18-34, and also children. But how do you group children with 18-34 years old males? These role models are certainly not good ones.
Why
is media portraying these people as people a child should consider a hero? Why are
most kids these days not consider scholars, scientists as heroes and role
models these days? Is it because the whole world is focused on self-entertainment
in this century?
There
are many other "role-models" to be listed but I thought that these
two stands out the most.
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