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Socio-Economic Factors and Impact of Television on Primary School Boys


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This paper investigates how socio-economic factors in rural and urban families can affect the behaviour of boys after watching television. It also explores which health problem perceive after a long period of time to be affected by watching T.V. We collected data via survey questionnaire from 100 boys of Bhiwani district of Haryana state in which 50 boys from rural and 50 boys were urban. All boys were from primary school aged between 9 to 12 years old. The majority of boy s imitate the character of hero and heroine in rural area while in urban areas majority of boys imitate the character of hero and villain. About health problem after a long period of television viewing depicted that majority of the respondents in rural and urban were feeling health problems. Socio-economic factors had significant impact of imitation of character and health problems.

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Socio-Economic Factors, Imitation of Character, Health Problem.
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Authors

Vijay Kumar
Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
Vinod Kumari
Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
Subhash Chander
Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India

Abstract


This paper investigates how socio-economic factors in rural and urban families can affect the behaviour of boys after watching television. It also explores which health problem perceive after a long period of time to be affected by watching T.V. We collected data via survey questionnaire from 100 boys of Bhiwani district of Haryana state in which 50 boys from rural and 50 boys were urban. All boys were from primary school aged between 9 to 12 years old. The majority of boy s imitate the character of hero and heroine in rural area while in urban areas majority of boys imitate the character of hero and villain. About health problem after a long period of television viewing depicted that majority of the respondents in rural and urban were feeling health problems. Socio-economic factors had significant impact of imitation of character and health problems.

Keywords


Socio-Economic Factors, Imitation of Character, Health Problem.

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