Analysis Of The Jefferson Show

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“According to, “The Jefferson,” it was one of the longest running sitcoms in the history of American television from “1975 through 1985,” The Jefferson show was mainly an African American couple living in New York City. However, the show tackles several controversial topics such as racism, suicide, gun control and adult illiteracy. “The show constantly used words such as “nigger” and “honky”, especially during the earlier seasons.” (Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation from 1995-2013)
George Jefferson character was referred to as Archie Bunker; he was a person that was a stubborn and an intolerant person. “According to, “The Jefferson,” it was one of three programs of the period to feature African Americans in leading roles; Louise …show more content…

Throughout “The Jefferson Show,” there were criticism and complaints about the show, because it showed “negative,” stereotypical and ethical realism of African …show more content…

“Williams says that, his perspective and ideas are referred to culture as to social practice, he saw “culture as a whole way of life” and as to structuralism that makes the concept of the “structure of feeling“(Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” 1980). “William says that he was influenced in the seventy by Gramsci’s,” but he became familiarly with Gramsci dominate and at the end of the 1970’s hegemony became the central concept of cultural studies. Thompson main idea was cultural focus, but mostly on social classes and class consciousness; he was not interested in the way “whole way of life” but how people, social class were struggling by the influenced and controlled by the “upper class” has a great deal of “dominant aspect of the “way of

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