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- Television Viewing Behaviour on Children:With Special Reference to Urban and Rural Children in Haryana
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Vijay Kumar
1,
Vinod Kumari
1
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1 Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
1 Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 10-12 (2018), Pagination: 972-976Abstract
The rapid convergence of mass media and communication technologies has made. Television is clearly part of the lives of hundreds of millions of young children around the world. This study examines the background and television viewing behavior of primary school boys in rural and urban areas. The study was conducted on 100 boys of Bhiwani district of Haryana state in which 50 boys from rural and 50 boys were urban. The data was analyzed by applying frequency, percentages, mean and rank. The study showed majority of the respondents belonged to age group 9-10 years in rural areas, had joint family, and belonged to backward class, having income up to Rs. 2025. Result regarding viewing frequency observed that 56.0 per cent boys were watching television up to 2 hrs and most preferred programmes of rural and urban was cartoon. Decision about channels and programmes half the cases selection was taken by father and majority of the respondents were watching television for entertainment.Keywords
Children, Television, Preference, Channels, Entertainment.
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- The Influence of Television on Primary School Boys in Rural and Urban Area:A Sociological Study
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Authors
Vijay Kumar
1,
Vinod Kumari
1
Affiliations
1 Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
1 Department of Sociology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 10-12 (2018), Pagination: 1012-1015Abstract
The present study was aimed to examine the influence of television on primary school boys in rural and urban areas. The sample for the study was 100 (50rural viewers & 5 Ourban viewers) selected primary schoolboys of 9 to 12 years of age, which were randomly selected from Bhiwani district of Haryana state. Questionnaire was used for the influence of television on primary school boys in rural and urban area. The data was analyzed by applying frequency, percentages and chi-square. The results showed majority of the respondents were connected to cable in urban area while most of the rural respondent had not cable connection. Majority of the respondents visit friend's house on social occasion that was influenced by T.V. on social aspect of human behavior. It was noticed that rural parents were watching more television as compared to urban parents. Majority of rural respondents do not play the games in comparison to urban respondents. Most of the rural and urban respondents always played more while not watching television, agreed that television viewing never affected their relationship with their friends, always think of television programmes during study time, felt that television viewing as great barrier to pursue their hobbies, realized that cable channel cause culture, moral and ethical invasion. On the other hand most of the students felt that television advertisements create awareness about new product.Keywords
Primary School Boys, Human Behavior, Family Members, Relationship, Awareness.References
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