Television and Socialization: A Different Stokes - Essay Example

The show taught me the value of the value adoption has in society. It showed me that an adoptive family can be as real and sometimes even more functional than a traditional family. The female daughter in the series called Kimberly was very fond of her adoptive brothers. As the series moved forward her relationship with Willis and Arnold became so real that she her actions depicted a relationship of real siblings. She became a more humble person thanks to the influence her stepbrother had on her.

Phillip became a better man and very happy person because had the opportunity to share his life with two children that needed a positive role model in their life to grow as individuals. The show was very well written and the racial aspect of having a mixed family which in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a bit more controversial than what it is today in the American society of the 21st century did not seem to matter that much because the topics covered in the different series episodes depicted family situations common to any American family.