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Abelman, Robert – 1980
The mass media appear to have an influential role in the socialization of children by exposing them to a world far beyond the limits of their immediate experience. Because children must depend on mass media models for learning about adult sexual intimacy, a content analysis of daytime soap operas, to which many children are exposed daily without…
Descriptors: Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Mass Media, Popular Culture
